address entered for a node is not geocoded

For the address geocoding, make sure you hit these hard to notice settings pages:

admin/settings/location/maplinking
admin/settings/location/geocoding

The map doesn't get updated when you hit tab; only after you submit.

On the macro page, the address textbox doesn't do anything useful for me, either.

Michelle

i have the same problem the map wont show the markers unless i click on the map and set a lon/lat. why cant it use the info from the address fields?

same problem. marker isn't placed, doesn't even zoom in on the suburb, typing in an address does bugger all...

Hi guys, I have successfully made this work. Not for tabbing, but when you type in an address, save, then come back to the form.

I don't have a great understanding of this module so I'm not submitting a patch, but if you care to determine how I did it, I edited the file location.module, about line 732 there is an 'if' statement I had to modify the contents of.

<?php

    if (user_access('submit latitude/longitude')) {
      for ($index = 0; $index < $location_form_count; $index++) {
        $form['locations'][$index][] = array(
          '#type' => 'markup',
          '#value' => "<br/>\n"
        );
        
        if ($node->nid || isset($node->locations[$index]['previous_source'])) {

          $full_address = $node->locations[$index]['street'].' '.$node->locations[$index]['additional'].' '.$node->locations[$index]['city'].' '.$node->locations[$index]['province'].' '.$node->locations[$index]['postal_code'].' '.$node->locations[$index]['country'];
          $gmap_geocode = gmap_geocode($full_address);
          $form['locations'][$index]['previous_source'] = array(
            '#type' => 'hidden',
            '#value' => $node->locations[$index]['source']
          );

          $form['locations'][$index]['previous_latitude'] = array(
            '#type' => 'hidden',
            '#value' => $node->locations[$index]['latitude'] ? $node->locations[$index]['latitude'] : ($gmap_geocode['latitude'] ? $gmap_geocode['latitude'] : '')
          );

          $form['locations'][$index]['previous_longitude'] = array(
            '#type' => 'hidden',
            '#value' => $node->locations[$index]['longitude'] ? $node->locations[$index]['longitude'] : ($gmap_geocode['longitude'] ? $gmap_geocode['longitude'] : '')
          );

        }

        if ($node->locations[$index]['latitude']) {
          $gmap_geocode['latitude'] = $node->locations[$index]['latitude'];
        }
        if ($node->locations[$index]['longitude']) {
          $gmap_geocode['longitude'] = $node->locations[$index]['longitude'];
        }

        //$form['locations'][$index] = array_merge($form['locations'][$index], location_latlon_form(t('If you wish to supply your own latitude/longitude, you may do so here.  Leaving these fields blank means that the system will determine a latitude/longitude for you, if possible.'), $node->locations[$index] ? location_api2form($node->locations[$index]) : array()));

        $form['locations'][$index] = array_merge($form['locations'][$index], location_latlon_form(t('If you wish to supply your own latitude/longitude, you may do so here.  Leaving these fields blank means that the system will determine a latitude/longitude for you, if possible.'), $gmap_geocode ? $gmap_geocode : array()));
      }
    }


?>

If you compare the original code, and my code there, you will see I have added a call to the function gmap_geocode() from the gmap module to try and get a proper lat/lon for the marker, based on the location fields (you may have different fields so theres another reason this wouldn't work as a patch to the module), and then I try to use this value instead of the null value or whatever you normally get

This issue is really old, and there have been lots of improvements; I think it might be in the latest version. Could someone please confirm this in the latest version? I'll mark it as postponed (needs more info).