Hi folks,

Happy and satisfied customer of RS Events Pro. We have used it to great effect with our clients.

Now for the question...

I have been chatting with an acquaintance about open data, and was asked as to how we, as an agency, use open data. It then struck me that although we use RS Events Pro quite a lot with our clients, it uses Google Maps where clearly there are many other providers.

Are there any plans to offer alternative providers as part of an admin-level option - eg Bing, or as per the above, Open Streetmap?

Cheers,
Paul

Hi,

I have the same problem, I use rsevent but I want to use an open format such as open street map. How should I do that ?

Thanks

You are more then welcomed to add this as a feature request here:

https://www.rsjoomla.com/feedback.html

In my opinion this is not a case for a nice to have feature request.
Most of my clients are not willing to pay for Google maps as it is rather expensive, especially when they do not care for their website by themselves.

Now I need to search for an alternative with a free or possibly low cost map provider.

Of course I don't expect RSJoomla to provide alternatives from one day to the other, but You should tell us Your plans how You will handle Googles step to payments.

I may ask You a very clear question, please give a clear statement on it.

Will RS Events Pro provide other (free, low cost) map providers within the next 6 month?

I will open a ticket with this same content, as the forum is not monitored regularly from the support team, and provide there answer if support is not answering the post.

It was just a simple question...
... and this is the anser:

After supports answer I still don't know if I can count on RS Joomla to support developers.
It seems RS Joomla thinks they make the rules and everybody has to follow it. I will not.

After this step, I am sure, many developers will provide "Openstreet" or "Bing Maps" as an alternative to "Google Maps" in there extensions while RS Joomla is thinking about to put it on their to-do-list. It will be too late!

Just to let everybody know.
OS solution is working on a free alternative to Google maps for their Event Booking component.

RS Joomla should think about introducing Openstreetmaps in their extension.