Guust

Look no further than the GD framework if you want a great GD theme:
My test site is at http://goldroo.net/
You can get the beta from https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/geodirectory-framework-theme-beta-released/

Activated at http://goldroo.net/
Doesn’t look as good yet as http://drinking.directory/ but I have not made any changes yet.

Yes, as long the categories are of the same post type.
If accommodation is a post type, and categories are hotel, guesthouse and motel, then all categories will show on the accommodation map.
Go to the demo a nd click on hotels below the map, you’ll see.

Same question for W3 Total Cache

I had the same problem. Brisbane in Australia is one city and one local government area, but is divided in about 50 suburbs (maybe called neighborhoods in the US?). Adding Brisbane itself as the GD location just allows you to add listings for the central business district, about 5% of what is known as Brisbane to everybody.
I bet it would be the same for any city really, so I purchased the multi-location addon. I guess everybody’s got to make a living and get paid for their work 🙂

@ dawnpedersen
I am building my GD around 2013 as well, but I have run into one problem. When I put a widget in the Secondary Widget Area, there is a CSS conflict between the theme sidebar and GD sidebar I think: the widget ends up outside the browser window like on my test site here:
http://goldroo.net/listing/info/smart-cookie-psychologist/
As you can see, on a theme only page, the widget ends up on the right place:
http://goldroo.net/sample-page/
I spent hours trying to adjust the CSS and can get it right on either a GD page or a theme page, but never on both.

My finished site is getting along slowly here, using a child theme of 2013:
http://www.bookhinterland.com.au/

I just renamed “Places” to “Attractions”, rather than deleting the “Places” post type. All works fine.
I really would like the possibility for a visitor to tick the different post types from the ribbon below the map, similarly to ticking the categories in the filter box.
(and also be able to order the custom post types, or at least have them ordered alphabetically, instead of by latest – but maybe I can change the date or order in PHPmyAdmin?)

Regarding the performance issues: if I have 1 post type, 20 categories with 50 listings each, all the 1000 listings will show on the map. But if I have 10 custom type posts, 10 categories for each post type, and 10 listings for each category, then showing the 1000 listings would be a performance issue?
Would allowing a visitor to choose multiple post types from the ribbon, rather than only one at the time, still be a problem?

PS: superb work guys; just wanting to give kudos so you are not getting too sick of all your high maintenance customers 🙂 🙂