Locations / Countries

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  • December 8, 2019 at 7:13 pm #520529

    Scott Robins
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    https://dev.shoppingonline.ie/wp-admin/admin.php?page=gd-settings&tab=locations&section=add_location

    Hi Folks

    The countries listed here, how do we add / edit them.

    You have Ireland listed as Ireland, but really it should be listed as Northern Ireland and Rep of Ireland

    Thanks

    Scott

    December 8, 2019 at 7:56 pm #520536

    Alex Rollin
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    Those are provided by the Maps API. Changing them will mean regular manual curation of the locations. New listings will again be set to the Map API result, and then you would merge them into your custom location.

    December 8, 2019 at 9:37 pm #520543

    Scott Robins
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    Hi Alex

    Ok thanks, so how do we get them added to the Maps API ?

    Cheers

    Scott

    December 9, 2019 at 1:17 pm #520606

    Alex Rollin
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    You can contact Google, it is their API, we don’t manage it.

    https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/integrations/google/#incorrect-data

    December 9, 2019 at 1:32 pm #520612

    Scott Robins
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    Which one ?

    https://developers.google.com/maps/support#issue_tracker

    December 9, 2019 at 7:18 pm #520684

    Alex Rollin
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    Geocoding.

    December 11, 2019 at 9:57 am #520961

    Scott Robins
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    Hi Folks

    See below response. Looks like the issue is on your side.

    Kind Regards

    Scott

    https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/145895357

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    status: New → Intended Behavior
    assignee: <none> → pr…@google.com

    pr…@google.com added comment #2:
    Thanks for posting!

    We checked and this issue is working as intended as both Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland (Ireland) are in our data. You can check the geocoding tool here:

    Northern Ireland – https://google-developers.appspot.com/maps/documentation/utils/geocoder/#q%3DNorthern%2520Ireland%2520UK

    Republic of Ireland (Ireland) – https://google-developers.appspot.com/maps/documentation/utils/geocoder/#q%3DRepublic%2520of%2520Ireland

    If your plug-in is filtering the results by ‘country’, you also need to include ‘administrative_area_level_1’ in your filter for countries in UK since UK countries such as England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are type administrative_area_level_1.

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    December 14, 2019 at 6:19 pm #521536

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    Hi Scott,

    If you look at both of your examples the “Country” is correct. Ireland/UK.

    I have looked into this in the past but the Google returns were not always returning the nation state and it was even worse with OSM api. I will revisit this but i fear we might have to do something like a post code check which would require an extra call to the server between marker moves to grab the right info.

    If your directory is the island of Ireland only, you might be able to filter the UK as a whole and change it on the fly to NI, though this will not work if you plan to have any listings in the rUK, let me know.

    Stiofan

    December 15, 2019 at 10:05 am #521597

    Scott Robins
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    Hi Stiofan

    I am not to sure i understand your response, and some feedback, as an app support engineer i am quite technical, but your responses and some of the responses from your support staff are quite cryptic.

    In easy to understand terms,

    You mentioned

    “If you look at both of your examples the “Country” is correct. Ireland/UK.”

    As i mentioned, we need to be able to select “Rep of Ireland” and Northern Ireland, these are two different countries and sometimes shops deliver to just one of them.

    Google as the mentioned send both these countries in the API so can you confirm why geodirectory is not showing them and resolve this please.

    Many thanks

    Scott

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