Various issues with locations and styling

Hi Guys,
I’m having some serious trouble with a few things that I’m struggling to resolve myself with the documentation and forums:

1. I can’t get the map to work properly with geolocate settings – when I enable geolocate in the ‘advanced search’ of GD I get the map error saying ‘no listings found’ – even with a 200 distance radius. If I disable the ‘near me’ function on the front end then the map works again, but the map is centred between all my listing, which I don’t want as its intended to be a worldwide directory. How can i resolve this?

2. I want users to be able to narrow down their search by selecting their location. Problem is that the ‘Show location switcher in menu’ setting requires the ‘location switcher’ to be part of my site menu, which appears globally on the site (e.g. on the main home page). I want it local to the GD location page only. I’ve currently disabled it because…

3. (Related to Item 2)… When I do enable the ‘location switcher’, its front end drop down menu ends up being greater than 100% site width (so partly off the screen). Ideally i’d like the location switcher to be part of the search bar – with the rest of the filters etc. How can this be achieved?

4. With ‘advanced search’ enabled, there is a styling issue with the ‘customise my search’ button (and resulting dropdown). The button itself doesn’t display on the location page and the advanced search filters are therefore on display permanently – this has a knock on effect with the location of the ‘search’ button. Strangely this problem resolves after I’ve clicked the search button.

5. I’ve disabled the ‘sticky’ header now – but it was causing some formatting issues with the icons (compass icon). I’d also like to know how to set the styling of the search bar and its elements – with my current them (Avada v 3.8.8) the search function looks plain and doesn’t hold my entire placeholder content? Is there an easier way to adjust these elements than to use browser tools to inspect elements and then custom CSS them?

Thanks for any help you can give.

P.s. I’ll post my WP credentials in private here – in case you want to see what I’m talking about.