Joanna

it’s about searching for listings that contain a tag, category, content in the heading and/or description within 1000 miles of a location entered into the ‘near’ field. It is not calculating the centre of that location and looking for listings.

This is not about the ‘near me’ as that works. It’s the ‘Near to’ that is not working.

ok, cheers. what about only updating the map per area being searched, as per mapbox?

ok cheers. can it be? Would be of great benefit for those with bigger directories

i’m on windows 10. why can google chrome identify my exact location but the map on my site can’t?

is it possible to set a location to display?

From the information in https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/gd-search/#near

It says “When you enter a location in the Near field, GD will calculate the center of that location.
GD then will look for all listings within an area with a default that match the Search for criteria.”

My understanding of this is that it will search for listings within the distance specified in “Limit squared distance area to X miles (helps improve search speed)” of the location entered.

It is only finding things that are listed in a specified location and around there. If I don’t have a listing at the location it is saying no results found. E.g. I have set the Limit squared distance area to X miles (helps improve search speed) to 1000 so it should find a lot of listings. I search for Toilets and enter Stirling Range National park. I have no listings in Stirling Range National Park but I have many listings within 1000 miles of Stirling Range National Park. I am expecting it to search for Toilets within 1000 miles of Stirling Range National Park but it is giving me no results found.