Map marker icons hidden on location_map when same address

Hi Marcus (or indeed anyone else who has experienced / would know the answer to this issue?)

At my site when you upload an event you complete the location data in order that the event page be geo searchable – and thus a location page is created, but that location page is not really made available or used for anything else in the site.

Users can manage their own location pages.

Two users may often have an event happening at the same address, but one location page will be called xxxxx event at this address, and one will be called YYYYY at this address.

This way each person gets to control their own location data page, it becomes an extension of the event page, almost.

This is all fine, but if you aren’t using just one location page per address and thus listing all events on that location, you get a problem when using location_map.

The problem is, if a location page has the exact same address as another, the icons are placed directly on top of each other so you can’t see or get to every location there on the location_map.

Instead of a solution like this below where the code uses z index to address the issue so the icon data shows itself:

(solution?)

There’s also this to deal with overlapping icons:
OverlappingMarkerSpiderfier

Has this come up before and is there a solution you can share as to how I can address this problem in the plugin on my site?

Thanks v much