I find myself constantly selecting a city for my nodes, then having to click on a Google map to provide coordinates so the city displays on the right place on my node map.

Just wondering if there's a way to associate map coordinates with a city, so that when selecting a city, it automatically knows what coordinates to use for it...?

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yesct commented

do you have geocoding on?

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented

Apparently not, was never sure what that actually did...

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rooby commented
Status: Active » Fixed

To use geocoding:
* Go to the geocoding setting page at admin/settings/location/geocoding
* For the country(ies) you require select a geocoding option from the available options.
* Click save configuration
* For each country you want to use geocoding for click the Configure parameters link and set any settings that need action. FOr example, for the configuration page for google geocoding you can set the 'Google Maps Geocoding Accuracy' option to 'Town (city, village) level' so that if the geocoding response is not accurate to at least the city level the lat/lon will not be used for your location.

Then when you save a node with an address, a request will be made to the geocoding service containing the entered address and it will try to get the lat/lon for that address and return it. It will then get saved to the location.

There is currently an issue that google geocoding doesn't work properly if you are entering a country only, with no other address information. For a fix for that see #907564: Country is not added to address when using google geocoding

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.