Search Near confusing, or broken

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  • June 14, 2014 at 1:18 am #4222

    purpleedge
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    If you look at this page…

    http://wpgeo.directory/hotels/5-stars/

    I want to narrow the search results to “New York”, so I type New York into the “Near” entry field. The search results are the same, it still includes Chicago, so it is unclear to me what the “Near” search field is supposed to do, or if it is broken in this release?

    Similar results here…

    http://www.bookhinterland.com.au/?geodir_search=1&stype=gd_accom&s=+&snear=Nambour&sgeo_lat=-26.6293532&sgeo_lon=152.95935970000005

    June 14, 2014 at 1:48 am #4226

    Guust
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    I flagged this for Vikas.

    June 14, 2014 at 5:31 pm #4264

    Paolo
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    This is correct behaviour.

    You are performing a proxmity search in the everywhere location. Not a search for result ONLY in New York.

    The results will be order by proximity and that exactly what is doing.

    If you want to see hotel ONLY in New York, you need to change location and browse away from Everywhere city.

    Thanks

    June 15, 2014 at 2:38 am #4292

    purpleedge
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    Hi Paolo, yeah, I think it is confusing at best. Maybe something to look at in the future?

    June 15, 2014 at 11:06 pm #4320

    purpleedge
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    Hi Paolo,

    I hadn’t noticed the distance values in the search results, that makes more sense. I wonder how hard it would be to filter the results based on a defined distance?

    I also noticed that the first result shows the distance in meters, and subsequent results are in miles?

    http://wpgeo.directory/?geodir_search=1&stype=gd_hotel&s=+&snear=New+York&sgeo_lat=40.7127837&sgeo_lon=-74.00594130000002

    June 17, 2014 at 2:05 pm #4521

    Vikas
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    Hi,
    For this, u have to enable advance search adons. Once u enable it, go to
    Geodirectory > Place Settings > Advance Search (tab) and configure Search by distance filter

    Please advise ?

    June 17, 2014 at 11:54 pm #4596

    purpleedge
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    Thanks Vikas, I was just pointing out the issue on your site.

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