It would be great to include the ability to have a "Map It" button to do a geocode live on the page before submitting. That way you can see the results and if there was a valid location returned before submitting the node form. Please see the attached screenshot for an example. We can help with implementing this if anyone is interested.

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nicholasthompson’s picture

nicholasthompson
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This is a feature I was considering as an idea too...

Should be really easy - have an "update" button which sends off an AJAX request to the GMaps API which geocodes the current field values and then fills in the lat/long fields.

However I get the impression that the work currently going on is to simply get Location into a working state without introducing new features. This will be Version 3.0... New features will come with new sub-released (eg 3.1, 3.2, etc).

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yesct commented
Status: Active » Postponed

This sounds really cool. If someone wants to create a patch to implement this, please do. Since this has been inactive for over a year, I'll mark it postponed for now, because this might be an idea worth investigating in the future.

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poli commented

Hello,
An excellent idea.
Essential for accuracy.
For three months I fields to search the solution.
is the same approach? http://drupal.org/node/1106464
can you help me put it in action please?

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TimelessDomain commented
Status: Postponed » Closed (duplicate)

Duplicate Issue #1106464: Geocode via Ajax - improved UI