Make address optional (discussion)

[Stiofan]

This has been requested multiple times, let's discuss how it would work. I think things we need to cover are:

1. If zero address info, where do the listings show exactly?
2. If no exact GPS info but has all other info, what happens with near search?

[Guust-Flater]

3. What about users that want to add city and region but not street address? Will it be complete address or nothing, or is it possible to just leave street address blank?

4. If zero address, they get added to a "No-address" location, with lat 0 and lng 0. Every listing with 0 0 as coordinates will not display a map on detail, and will have no marker on maps. GD Listings to have option to display listings with 0 0 coordinates: yes/no

Just thinking ....

[Stiofan]

3. the idea is to make all the fields optional. So you could state you are located in London but have no street address or GPS.

[alexrollin]

Top requested feature since advent of covid - more directories needed - more business owners need to control visits

Nice to have -

Listings with partial info still show in location queries

• Examples for region is set without city
  • gd listings if region is set will show
  • on IN search for region (if they enter a region, then show in region IN and near, but not in city if city is blank)
  • region location page

Need to have?

• no location listings should still appear in cpt and cpt+category archives, and search queries, when no location/near is specified
• sorting option specific to no location data, so that a no-location+featured could be created.
• post map automatically disabled
• meta title section for no-location
• location description option for 'no location' as a city, and option to set the slug
• gd listings option for query for no-location data
• advanced search option to query set of no-location listings as filter, checkbox for 'global' (no location)
• post map default tab automatically hidden
• permalinks handling for %city% - error detection? if user enables partial address and city not required, throw error notification for %city% in permalinks?

Improvements to import export

• changes to import validation - geolocation not possible without all address info - and nice to have import for incomplete data. less breakage all around!
• option to attempt geolocation even with partial entries?
• option to enable verbose error reporting and text file download for log
• link to import / export help page in listings import description

New custom field

• If the user's address data is not 'complete' then this field appears and requires the user to acknolwedge they have entered an incomplete address. This gives us a boolean for all listings with 'no location.
• for all CPTs, can be turned off, but if it is turned on, it needs to be required.
• checkbox
• confirm incomplete address (error validation conditional checkbox)
• custom validation warning

New address field options

• Mark each address part as required, or not

• Extract house number, add to GD Post Address template (esp. for EU users)

  API New features

• geocoding endpoint for producing lat lon, and reverse geocoding

• option for querying 'no location' data

Additional nice to have

we do have regular requests for service areas, too - https://github.com/AyeCode/geodirectory/issues/1556

[alexrollin]

Qs

1. If zero address info, where do the listings show exactly?
2. If no exact GPS info but has all other info, what happens with near search?
3. What about users that want to add city and region but not street address? Will it be complete address or nothing, or is it possible to just leave street address blank?
4. If zero address, they get added to a "No-address" location, with lat 0 and lng 0. Every listing with 0 0 as coordinates will not display a map on detail, and will have no marker on maps. GD Listings to have option to display listings with 0 0 coordinates: yes/no

My Answers

1. Some sort of no location archive, as in #4. Should there be an option to set the 'title' of the no location 'city' ? And other meta fields?
2. Near search should not include any item without a complete address - needs both lat and lon, street, city, region, and country.
3. If all fields are optional, then they are individually optional.
4. GD Post Map has to be updated to display:none when either lat or lon is 0.

[alexrollin]

I don't add notes about this, but people request this regularly, like, eveyr couple days.

https://secure.helpscout.net/conversation/1581859560/22422/

[Stiofan]

This in it's basic form has been implemented, and will be in the next release, lets close this and get user feedback for further improvements.