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  • March 20, 2015 at 9:52 pm #34752

    msgliniewicz
    Buyer
    Post count: 164

    Question?

    Today I took a trip to a town close to my default city.. I changed locations to this city and did a search for local services. I made my search very wide just to make sure services in my default city should have been found.

    When I did the search though, nothing came up?

    I made the search wider and repeated, nothing came up? Of course, if I changed back to my default city, everything works fine..

    What is going on?

    Thanks

    March 21, 2015 at 2:42 pm #34781

    Paolo
    Site Admin
    Post count: 31206

    Hi,

    I changed locations to this city

    That’s it.

    Only if you where on the location/me location with a radius big enough to include your default city listings they would have been returned in results.

    But if you are set in another city, it will show only listings assigned to that city.

    Thanks

    March 21, 2015 at 8:09 pm #34810

    msgliniewicz
    Buyer
    Post count: 164

    Paolo

    I increased the range to 100 miles, the town is only 10 miles away from my default city and yet, it returned no results.. That was the frustrating part. I even tried a number of searches different services and events, no results were returned?

    March 23, 2015 at 3:11 pm #34923

    Paolo
    Site Admin
    Post count: 31206

    Hi,

    Only if you where on the location/me location with a radius big enough to include your default city listings they would have been returned its results.

    If you switch location to city X, listings from city Y will not appear even if it is 10km from it and you put 80.000km as radius.

    Only if you are in the “me” location it will show also listings from close locations.

    I hope it’s now clear?

    Thanks

    March 23, 2015 at 6:44 pm #34977

    msgliniewicz
    Buyer
    Post count: 164

    Somewhat yes…

    What do you mean by “me” location? Are you saying if the computer ask to use my location, then the listings will so up? But, if I select a city manually, then those nearby listings will not show up?

    Am I following you correctly?

    If so, how can I force the users to use “the my location settings” by default?

    March 23, 2015 at 6:51 pm #34979

    Paolo
    Site Admin
    Post count: 31206

    Yes that is correct.

    There is no way to force users to be geolocated, it goes against Google Maps API TOS.

    You can ask them to be geolocated only.

    Thanks

    March 24, 2015 at 6:41 pm #35079

    msgliniewicz
    Buyer
    Post count: 164

    Got it, thank you.. So, I guess the part I was missing, I never received the option to try and geolocate my position. Maybe a setting in my browser? Just trying to understand the issues my users will run into.

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