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Thanks Alex. It took some playing around, but finally found the right way to use the CSS. For anyone else looking to do this, here’s what worked. (My page id was 9)

.page-id-9 div.geodir_post_meta.geodir-field-post_content {
	Display:none;
} 

Hi Stiofan. Thanks, that will really help.

Paolo, thanks for your response, and as Stiofan said, I’m glad the tagging thing is being worked on.

For the long term fix though, I just want to add my support for a field that is considered location-based — so that it can take advantage of themes pages, etc. — but is entered manually. There are so many groupings that cannot be properly defined by the narrow scope of google addresses, nor by a gps coordinate with a radius.

In addition to examples above, imagine how this would also allow someone to use the plugin to list/sell a trip itinerary, that would go through multiple towns and such, along a set path; showing activities/hotel/restaurant choices along the way. A radius wouldn’t really apply here, because it would bring in too many places along the straight line of travel. Just one example.

Thanks for listening.

Hi Alex, thank you for your response. Neighborhoods are not allowed to be entered manually. You’re only allowed to use what google maps suggests, so that doesn’t work. And the radius is an idea that doesn’t work in many cities. For example, when you live in Manhattan, New York, there ate sites that suggest movie theaters in New Jersey, because they are in radius — completely ignoring that there is a river and no transportation in between. It’s something only a local understands when creating a guide and how people are looking for something.

And Paolo, thank you for yours as well, but you are completely missing my point — I don’t need wikipedia or google to tell me what my idea is for a local guide. I should be able to do a “Los Angeles” guide that compromises what most people think of when they see Los Angeles and what I want my Los Angeles guide to be. And I should be able to do that without having to override the system and create false addresses.

I strongly suggest you look into implementing this — it can’t be that technically challenging to add a custom grouping that is outside the google maps address control — it’s quite similar to a tag. From digging through the forums, I learned that you can have a tag archive page (WITH A MAP!) that encompasses those listings. However, in the gd_map block you cannot chose a tag as your filter. So you already have this ability somewhere in your system, how hard would it be to add it to that option as well, so we can use that map however we want (without relying on custom programming)?

Think of how many situations this would help. Not just the major cities I mentioned, but smaller towns that are near each other. Wine regions that don’t easily fit into a city categorization. For example, Sonoma is a wine region in California that people touring wineries would see as one grouping – but does not easily fall into how the locations plugin works. They want to plot their route from one map, not ten.

I think this idea is at the core of the geodriectory mission, so to speak, and would be extremely useful to many. However, even if you just let us create a map block using tags we could work around it.

Thanks.