World Map Buildings can be incorrectly located in the wrong city

This applies to city and countries where there are duplicate city names within the country.

In People, World Map (http://site.com/m/map_profiles/) the buildings are located on the map by city, country and can be incorrectly displayed when there are duplicate city names within the same country.  A building could be displayed at Springfield, Illinois, USA and the site have no members in Illinois.  The member could be in Springfield, Virginia, USA.  The building location depends on which city is displaying first in Google (enter city, country in Google).

As per kolimarfey, "building are positioned using country/city pair - so I suppose that cities will still have problems..."

Quote · 12 Jan 2011

Are you using cities as the key in the profile maps?

Profile address field name for exact address geocoding:

Change to "zip" there are no duplicate zip codes.

then update your map by clicking on "update profiles" and "update cities"

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Quote · 12 Jan 2011

The Profile address field name for exact address geocoding: only impacts the mapping of a profile on the profile page.  I have 18 emails going back/forth with Alex - Kolimarfey.   There is not a problem with the current location in the profile Current Location.    The World Map building, however, does not use the same data and is only displayed by City, Country.


As per kolimarfey, "building are positioned using country/city pair - so I suppose that cities will still have problems..."

Quote · 12 Jan 2011

Steps to duplicate -

  • Create a profile on your site - location:  Zip:  19806, City:  Wilmington,  Country: USA.  State field:  Delaware
  • Go to Profile page - member current location will be displayed in Wilmington, Delaware
  • Go to People, World Map.  No building will be displayed at Wilmington, Delaware - building will be displayed at Wilmington, North Carolina
  • Zoom in on the building location.  No member icon is displayed in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Quote · 12 Jan 2011

I can't even update cities.  DATABASE QUERY ERROR. I updated profile first then tried updating cities but got this error so I un installed the mod.

Quote · 11 Mar 2011
 
 
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