Location: associate geographic location

The location module allows you to associate a geographic location with content and users. Users can do proximity searches by postal code. This is useful for organizing communities that have a geographic presence.

To administer locative information for content, use the content type administration page. To support most location enabled features, you will need to install the country specific include file. To support postal code proximity searches for a particular country, you will need a database dump of postal code data for that country. As of June 2005 only U.S. postal codes are supported.

A database dump for most counties postal codes can be downloaded from GeoNames. The current full URL for the downloads page is http://download.geonames.org/export/dump.

You can

• administer locative information at administer >> content types to configure a type and see the locative information.
• administer location at administer >> settings >> location.
• use a database dump for a U.S. postal codes table that can be found at zipcode database.
• enable a CiviCRM profile with street address, supplemental address 1, city, postal code, state, and country that will be synchronized between CiviCRM and the location module.
• file issues, read about known bugs, and download the latest version on the Location project page.