Force map center or exclude outlying listings

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August 17, 2016 at 6:45 pm #248667

Betsy Kaage
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The map is centering on the geographic center of all listings. The problem is I have one listing way far to the south and it’s making the map focus in the middle of nowhere.

http://www.galena.org/business-directory-map/

Is it possible to force the map to center on the Default City?
or
To exclude certain listings from showing on the map?

August 18, 2016 at 8:59 am #248933

Kor
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Hi Dave,

I’ve just checked your Website and I’m able to see the issue there. Have you tried adjusting the “zoom” level of the “GD > GMap” widget so it fits the current location or the default city location? Or you can have that “Tours” category untick by default in GD > Design > Home Map Settings.

Thanks!

August 26, 2016 at 3:55 pm #253911

5tratus
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Hi there!
I’m having a similar problem – 99% of my listings are in the UK – but 1 of them is in Turkey – so if I have auto zoom set, it zooms out to include turkey and looks like crap. If I turn off auto zoom – the map centers on Germany thereby showing NONE of my listings.

I would like to center my map on the midlands by default. is this possible? Where do I go, or can I go, to set a default latitude and longitude?

thanks!
Lana

August 26, 2016 at 4:36 pm #253930

5tratus
Buyer

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oh… I also tried to set the GD>Design>Home Map Settings – so that it excludes the new category I assigned to the Turkey listing – but this only works on the “home” map.. and my default view is the “listing” map.. so it doesn’t work there 🙁 so I can’t use this.. is there anything I can do? I just want my map to center on the UK and pretend that turkey isn’t there unless they scroll the map over to it
there must be a way

August 26, 2016 at 5:15 pm #253961
5tratus
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I wonder if maybe I could add a function that did this bit
```
   // Untick the category by default on home map
                if ($is_home_map && $geodir_home_map_untick = get_option('geodir_home_map_untick')) {
                    if (!empty($geodir_home_map_untick) && in_array($post_type . '_' . $cat_term->term_id, $geodir_home_map_untick)) {
                        $checked = '';
                    }
                }
```
which I found in geodirectory-functions/map-functions/map_functions.php

If I could add something in my functions.php file that did THAT – but applied it to the listing map then maybe I could exclude the turkish listing from the map – and then the map would center where I need it to??

what do you think?
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