Member map - Custom location profile field

[Noni]

Membermap with the latest 3.1 update "revolutionized" my community. Thank you @Martin A. and @stoo2000

It allows fetching a members location based on a custom profile field. 

On the registration page i am asking my members to enter their location. Many of them use shorcodes instead of actual cities or countries.
Most of the custom fields however have been synchronized because i edited the members custom input to match the city/region they were in.

There are however some badly placed markers.

 

I believe here we could have a great improvement by adding to the registration page (member profile) a custom location field which autocompletes from google automatically

This field could then be easily placed and synchronized on the member map.

Is there anyone interested in creating this custom field? I would pay for it. @Martin A.? What do you think?

By the way... here's my communities map:
https://www.pro-bike.ro/forums/membermap/

[Martin A.]

You can already do this if you change the type of the field to "Address" rather than "Text"

[Noni]

i tried that already... but it complicates the registration process a lot.

It actually adds more fields Country, Address, City, Region, Postal code

I was thinking of a more easier way.. an autocomplete field that mathces city and country.

[Martin A.]

It should automatically set the country to match where the HTTP request is coming from. But you may be right, and a street address may also be required. 

I will look at how the process is to add a new type of custom field trough the app.

[Noni]

That would be fantastic
I requested this loooong time ago. I even bough Kevin's location field for pages and asked him to adapt it to the custom profile fields

[Noni]

Having this large member database, it would be very useful to create some automation rules. What do you think @Kevin Carwile?

such as:

- if fewer than x members are in a range of x km, let them know they are not alone, they can have company when riding their bikes.

- if a new marker was added near some members, send out a message, email.. Notify the nearby members of the place. In my case, there can be biker friendly places.

[Julien Leconte]

Hello,

I'm using the Member map since days and tryied to use a custom field from registration. It's working sometime when only put the city but, sometime we need to add the postal code and sometime with it, it's not working either. 

We need an autocomplete form as Noni said

[Julien Leconte]

Well, I checked one more time, in fact, I told the Member Map plugin to check my Town field that a new member must insert. But after all, nothing work. Don't know why :s