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Hello,

The map feature (based against google) doesn't work very well with the european addresses I've tried. If I read the template code properly, you can either put the lat/lon (something I doubt my users know by heart for most of their contacts or fill the address and state for the geolookup.

The problem is that in some/most countries in europe, the state isn't a very common nor useful notion. However on maps.google.com if you put the {address}, {city}, {country} it does display the map.

I wanted to test more seriously, but I can't find the template used for the map as displayed in
civicrm.dev?q=civicrm/contact/map&reset=1&cid=105&lid=92

I looked in templates/CRM/Contact/Page/View/ to try to find a template, but didn't find any template.

Could you point me to where they are ?

Assuming I can find a better solution to display the european maps, I'd like to contribute back, Could tell me what's the best way to submit this (tiny) enhancement to hopefully be accepted and added to the core ?

Thanks in advance,

Xavier

Xavier,

did you have much success with your efforts in hacking the code?

I want to map addresses in Australia and have hit a similar problem

I have found that the import function lets you choose country as a field yet fails on the actual import.

[on further investigation i found the import worked on my installation of civicrm but not on the demo site]

cheers