Would you like to show location of your listings on map? Why not to use most popular Google Maps API to do that!
Google Maps Osclass Plugin use most favorite geolocation service provided by Google that is javascript based. Once new listing is published, it’s address is sent to Google API to retrieve latitude and longitude of item address. This information is then stored in item location table for future use.
When listing page is opened and coordinates of item are available in location table, map is generated showing position of listing marked on map.
Administrator must enter valid google maps API key to be able to fully use features of this plugin, this API is not free and require having credit card filled in profile on google, however there is satisfactory free quota for geolocation & map API. It means, websites with lower traffic will not have any problems to fit into free quota.
Plugin also allows to load / not to load javascript library required for map to be shown. This is very smart option that enables place scripts manually into theme files to footer (to avoid render blocking notifications) or simply merge & minify it with other scripts.