Hi All,

Having an issue with proximity filter whereby a postcode on its own wont return a result eg.3199, but typing in 3199, Australia works. Is it possible to have it only geocode locations within a specific country?

Appreciate any insight on the matter.
Ben

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simon georges commented

By using the Addressfield module to handle the address part, I think you may force the country.

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benjmarr commented

unfortunately this doesn't work. We are using the proximity exposed filter with the source of origin point being"geocoded location" using the google geocoder service.

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benjmarr commented
Priority: Normal » Major

Hi All,

This is now major... when searching a postcode say 3000 no results are shown. The user has to search 3000, Australia. I have gone through the code and tried a few things but no success is there anywhere that i can add ,Australia so it processes the users entry with ,Australia appended?

Thanks,
Ben

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benjmarr commented

still messing around trying to get geofield to process a geocoded location by appending ,t(Australia) but cant get it to work.

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benjmarr commented

any gurus here to weigh in on wether this is possible or not?

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p_stampy commented

We've just come across the same problem too, will be interested to see if there is an outcome.

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p_stampy commented

Some additional information, typing in "2012, Australia" actually brings up results around Adelaide/SA instead of Sydney...

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benjmarr commented

still trying to find a solution for this but this is certainly not our forte!!

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p_stampy commented

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is in the right place, but this has worked for us when using "openlayers_proximity" to do the proximity search on aussie post codes.

In sites\all\modules\openlayers_proximity open up openlayers_proximity.module

For me it starts on line 387...

 * Query Google geocoding web service.
 *
 * @param $address Address or location name.
 * @return Geocoder response.
 */
function openlayers_proximity_geocode($address) {

  $locations = $args = array();
  
  // INSERT AU - replace "$address" below with "$address . ', AU'"
  // $address is the string that tells the map what to look for (from what I can assume from reading the code anyway
  // the ". ', AU'" is for PHP to ADD to extend/add to a string. what i can assume is that $args['address'] is just a holder that replaces spaces with + signs, and the string to replace them in is $address.
  // this then stores the replaced string into $args['address'] and is then used elsewhere in this function
  // this might not be the best way to intercept the value, and would probably be good to test it on a few other locations and see if it errors or whatever, but i think it should be OK
  // but it does keep the modification invisible to the user
  $args['address'] = str_replace(' ', '+', $address . ', AU');
  $language = language_default();
  $args['language'] = $language->language;
  $args['oe'] = 'utf-8';
  $args['sensor'] = 'false';
  $query = http_build_query($args, '', '&');

Anyway, hope that might help a little bit...

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bneil commented
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Duplicate in favor of #2014621: Geofield proximity + postal code to find a solution as its obviously a non-specific country issue. Comment 14 in that issue also provides a work around that can be used via a new hook.