Introduce the fields available in the database for storing the latitudes and longitudes of site members.
This option allows you to enable or disable:
- storage in the database of anonymous visitor IPs, their geolocation, the number of visits and their visiting position on the site
- display of this data in the interface
NB: this option can considerably slow down the display of the map (if you are logged in as an administrator and your database contains a lot of lines (> 10,000 IPs)) and store a lot of data in the database over time. You can empty the database at any time.
How it works:
IP georeferencing is provided by different providers and complements the site's database.
We use 4 IP geolocation providers:
https://ipapi.co ==> max 1000 requests per day, 30,000 per month
https://api.ipdata.co => requires API key ==> max 1,500 requests per day
https://extreme-ip-lookup.com ==> max 20 requests per minute, 50,000 per month
http://ip-api.com ==> max 150 requests per minute (ban)
All these providers have a free usage limit or their number to be able to ensure continuous operation remaining free...
This key is optional it allows you to use data from ipdata.co you can obtain it here:
https://ipdata.co/sign-up.html
This key allows you to use data from Bing maps. If you wish to use this data go to https://www.bingmapsportal.com and follow the process (creating an account then obtaining a key)... and fill in the field.
This key (optional) allows you to use Mapbox data. If you wish to use this data go to https://www.mapbox.com and follow the process (creating an account then obtaining a key)... and fill in the field.
You can define the default basemap here, depending on the providers available to you and the API keys you have obtained
Allows you to define the default display of coordinates
You can choose between two types of icons which will represent:
1. Images in png, gif (animated gif not supported), jpeg format.
These are stored at the address defined in the image path parameters (supra). You can choose the images you want and adjust their final display dimension on the card in the width and height fields.
Default:
2. Webfonts (fontawesome).
You can therefore choose from the proposed list...
By default :
You can define here for the block:
Default:
NPDS - Geoloc Manuel administration