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Improvements for Proximity Search


Adam Campbell

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1. Auto-complete shouldn't be necessary to do a proximity search. You currently must click an auto-complete location when using the location field with proximity search. For example: if I just type "seattle" on my website and don't click the "Seattle, WA" suggestion, my search returns 0 results. Even manually typing out Seattle, WA without clicking the suggestion from Google still returns 0 results. But if I click "Seattle, WA" from the suggestion list, it finds the Seattle entries in my directory.

 

2. It would be quite handy to have a "Locate Me" button that can be used in the Advanced Search module (or any JReviews search form) in conjunction with the GeoMaps addon, which is already capable of reading a user's location with the GeoMaps module.

 

3. Display proximity/distance in listings found with the proximity search.

 

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There's an app for SobiPro that does these things, and perfectly demonstrates my suggestions:

 

http://demo.myjoom.com/joomla25/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=42:radius-search-module&catid=13&Itemid=450

 

This also seems to be a lot more mobile-friendly. The autocomplete for location is very screwy on my Windows Phone 8.

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