Martin Aronsen
Active member
As I'm also an IP.Board dev too, I've been quite busy these days getting my add-ons compatible with that, in addition to other post-vacation duties.Any idea when you may find the spare time to it...I can manage it with some changes myself if I knew how to add a text field to it
Hope you enjoyed your holiday mate!
I have no idea when I'm back working on this add-on, so I'm afraid I can't give you an ETA.
You want the users to automatically show up on the map without no further interactions on their side? As you said yourself, that will create problems as many places around the globe share the same name, Google will always choose the "biggest" location. This will have the biggest impact on "local" forums, one for Texas for example, where the users would only enter the name of the city. Just writing "Paris" would have them show up in France, while writing "Paris, TX" would show the correct location.If you are taking requests... any chance on pulling the location field from the users profile?
At least on our forum our members put in as much information as they want the world to know - such as city / state, or just state. If they show up in the wrong place because not enough information was provided then that is their problem
Specifically if they say they are located in Paris, and they show up in France, but they meant Paris Texas - they could fix it if they wanted to.
And people use that field to write all sort of gibberish too, which you also have to account for. That's why I settled for the solution I use today. If they've entered something in their location field, that is automatically added to the search field when they open the form, and - if they allow, HTML5 Geolocation will also attempt to find their location.