Vi Wickam

That solution might be viable on a smallish site, but not on a large site with many regions and cities.

The usability issue appears to be using the single selector for multiple selections. In other words, the same selector is used to pick the state, the region, and the city. That seems to be the source of the confusion.

Hi,

I’d like to know the status of the geolocation update. It’s been six months since we last discussed this.

Mike

Thanks, Paolo. I will submit the request to have the average calculated.

At the risk of being argumentative, I respectfully disagree with this point:

With this plugin you can allow users to leave not only a overall rating but individual rating for anything you choose to setup

Which clearly states that you can give your overall rating and than also give multi-ratings.

That was not at all clear to me, and I’m generally a careful reader.

That’s Outstanding, Paolo.

Thanks!

Let me add one last thought: however GD decides to implement this, I do think you should provide an option to hand off the destination location to the mobile device’s map app as an alternative. I often use turn-by-turn directions when traveling, and I think it would be a very useful option to offer from GD sites.

Thanks, again!

Mike

Thanks for the update, Paolo.

I need to challenge on your #2 response:

>>2) we didn’t add that because Google geolocation can get you location with few hundred meteres of approximation. Most of the time and especially on mobiles it doesn’t get your precise location. We thought that giving you direction from a location 300 meters from you, wasn’t a good experience either, so we added Google autocompleter so that once typing your address, it is autocompleted. Only an app can easily access data from the Phone GPS system.

300 meters may be the worst-case scenario, but I have never experienced anything that bad on my iOS devices, even using a web app. Best case, of course, is about 3 meters, as long as the mobile device has clear access to two GPS satellites. 10-20 meters is more typical when using just cellular or Wi-Fi networks.

Also, when you say: “Only an app can easily access data from the Phone GPS system” … I do not believe that is correct. See here:

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/device-access/user-location/obtain-location?hl=en

While I agree that it’s a fine idea to offer autocompleter as one of the user interface options, I do not think it should be the default, and certainly not the only option, especially on a mobile device. (I have never seen a mobile site use autocompleter for displaying my current location. Do you know of any prominent sites using this technique?)

I also think it would be OK to use the built-in map apps as the primary source for directions. That way, the user can get turn-by-turn directions from the built-in map app on both iOS and Android devices.

>>I’m afraid but it’s not possible to calculate an average of the multi-rating values.

It seems to me that this is a design error. At the very least, the way GD describes the multi-rating functionality is not at all clear on this point (https://wpgeodirectory.com/addons/multiratings-and-reviews/).

It didn’t occur to me that your code might not support this functionality until I couldn’t figure out how to make it work.

>>Do you want to move this thread to the Jobs section so maybe someone could help you out with some custom code?

No. I already have a custom solution that we wrote and support. The whole point of this exercise is to find a fully supported off-the-shelf solution.

I would encourage you to include this in the multi-ratings functionality ASAP.