Update: your changes are merged into edge. I also went ahead and added a js
datepicker (I was sick of those ugly date_select fields).

>
> I am allowing users to enter an actual address, not necessarily just a city
> name.
>
> So, if somebody enters, "Spider House Cafe, 2908 Fruth St., Austin, TX," it
> will display that along with a Google Maps link to that address.  If they
> enter nothing, it will display the metro area name if the user has set one.
> If neither a location for the event nor a metro area for the user are set
> then it displays nothing.
>

In that case let's at least call it "event_location" (no need to save
keystrokes)


>
> Do you not like the idea of allowing users to enter an address for the
> location?
>
>


> If you do not like the way I have done this, I have an alternate idea that
> I could put together:
>
> 1. Add a drop-down menu to the edit/new view to select a metro area.  The
> default selection would be the user's metro area (if it is set).
>
> 2. Use location only as an address (or nil).
>
> 3. Update the index view to display separate lines for metro area (if set)
> and location (if set).  This leaves the door open to add a link to filter
> the view by metro area.

This would probably be best. Plus we could link the address they entered to
Google Maps as well.

Thanks,
Bruno

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