will the update also modify the way Regions work in Geolocation?
I mean, currently, if Regions are enabled, you can search for “Italy” and all the listings in Italy should appear, no matter their address. That works.
What does not work is the other way around. If your listing has the country Italy as location, and a user searches for listings in Rome, that listing does not show.
For example, a user uploads a listing “Online italian lessons” and he sets Italy as his location, because obviously it is online and it does not matter where people live. Then nobody will find his listing if they search for listings in Rome, in Sicily, Naples…
Most likely, you do not have generated regions because searching for Rome should only show ads from Rome (from a generated region); please review this doc How to set up regions - HivePress Help Center
I am only asking (feature request) if you will also change how Regions work in the upcoming updates.
EXAMPLE:
How it works now
I have a business directory website where you can list your business.
Your business is online, available in the whole country. Let’s say, Italy.
You list your business on my website and put Italy as the location.
Currently, only users who put “Italy” in the location field will find you. If you put Rome in the location field, nobody finds your listing, even it if it is actually available in whole Italy.
Feature requested
Same as above
Same as above
Same as above
If a user puts “Rome” in the location field, your listing should appear, because Rome is part of Italy.
This makes a lot of sense for all online businesses.
Thanks for the details, this makes sense and we’ll check if there’s a solution for this. Please recommend your users to set a precise location (at least a city) to temporarily resolve this, you can also check this during the listing moderation.
as I reported last year here Add several locations to the same listing - #8 by Jay3 , an example of a listing that is set to have “Italy” as location (imagine it is an online business operating in whole Italy), that listing does not appear in search results if someone searches for those listings in “Rome” or “Milan”, etc…
And similarly, if Rome is the general location of the listing, the listing does not appear when searching in smaller areas of Rome, let’s say “Central Rome”.
This is very important but since I reported it I think it was not added to a roadmap or fixed at all.