Reply To: Saving Google Map lat/lon data as post_meta

• robmaurizi

• May 21, 2015 at 12:54 am

So, I wound up using save_post vs acf/update_value, and that seems to work.

Here’s my final working function for anyone else that’s looking to extract lat/lon out of the map field:

function rhm_update_latlon($post_id, $post, $update) {

	$map = get_post_meta($post_id, 'map_location', true);

	if (!empty($map)) {
	    update_post_meta( $post_id, 'loc_lat', $map['lat'] );
	    update_post_meta( $post_id, 'loc_lng', $map['lng'] );
	}

}
add_action('save_post', 'rhm_update_latlon', 90, 3);

That said, it would still be great to see the map_location data stored separately as individual fields (even better would be to break out the individual address components) so they could all be queried and extracted as needed.