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joachim

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can't get event location maps to work
October 07, 2008, 09:35:10 am
I can't get the event maps to work at all.
My event map shows the middle of the Pacific ocean -- probably what Google maps considers to be (0,0).

I've tried entering some different values for Latitude and Longitude in to the Event Location settings (though I've no idea what units to use: tried both actual degrees and decimal values) -- these don't get saved at all: when I go back to the Event Locations settings page the Lat and Long are both zero again.

How does Google maps get hold of the right place to show? Have I missed where I'm supposed to enter data perhaps?

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Re: can't get event location maps to work
October 07, 2008, 10:30:28 am
If you have Google mapping configured in Global Settings, then when you enter or update the Event Location, the geocoding fields should get populated for that event / location. I did notice when playing with this on the 2.1 demo just now that the geo-coding does NOT happen if the Country field is suppressed on "Address Editing" (Global Settings >> Address Settings). Once I re-enabled "Country" - things worked as expected:

http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/admin/event?action=update&reset=1&id=1
http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1

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joachim

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Re: can't get event location maps to work
October 10, 2008, 04:07:33 am
I'm on 2.0.4 on Drupal 5.
The Country field is enabled on the Address Editing settings.
Still getting the middle of the Pacific ocean :(

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Re: can't get event location maps to work
October 10, 2008, 06:52:46 am

1. does mapping work at all for you? can u check with contact mapping?

2. if not, i would first check if geocoding is working (CRM/Utils/Geocode/Google.php,  function format() ). If the address is being geocoded properly, then

3. I'd debug the mapping code (CRM/Contact/Form/Task/Map.php)

If i had to guess i suspect geocoding is not working and hence u get the pacific ocean

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joachim

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Re: can't get event location maps to work
October 23, 2008, 05:09:30 am
The map for a contact's location is showing fine.
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