On Jun 14, 9:59 pm, planetthrive <[email protected]> wrote:
> The WP theme I purchased includes a Google map feature. But it is not
> displaying correct locations in some cases (not all).

If you paid for this, perhaps you should be consulting your supplier?

If you do a view source in your browser on your affected pages, look
for the lines like
new GSmapSearchControl(
   ...
   );

On the one that works http://mcssafehomes.com/?p=285
it looks like
   new GSmapSearchControl(
   document.getElementById("mapsearch"),
    ", San Rafael, CA Ecology House Apartments, 94901",
and shows you a map that it thinks best matches the address
      ", San Rafael, CA Ecology House Apartments, 94901"

On this example that doesn't work http://mcssafehomes.com/?p=105
it looks like
    new GSmapSearchControl(
    document.getElementById("mapsearch"),
    ", ",
and it can't find any map that best represents the address ", " so it
is defaulting to Google's office.

On this example that doesn't work http://mcssafehomes.com/?p=52
it looks like
    new GSmapSearchControl(
    document.getElementById("mapsearch"),
    ", Kingman, AZ 6 Acre parcel &#8211; no pesticides, 86409",
which a human might work out is an address, but the map struggles
with, and again only gives you the default.

If I paste ", Kingman, AZ 6 Acre parcel &#8211; no pesticides, 86409"
into maps.google.com it can't really work it out either, although it
guesses it ought to be Kingman AZ but that won't really do for your
webpage.

I've no idea how the address data gets inserted into your pages or
where it comes from, but that looks like the process that needs
attention.

cheers, Ross K

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