Restrict the search results to a Geographical Area

You can configure your Mashup Builder to display a Google Maps widget on which the user will be able to draw a polygon or a circle and then launch a standard search on the specified geographical area, for example, a search on the restaurants of this area.

To use the Google Maps widget for geosearch you must provide the GPS coordinates via a GPS point meta; this data must be provided from one of your sources and defined in the data model.

The workflow to implement geosearch in the Mashup Builder is to:

  • Prepare your data model.

  • Restrict search results to a geographical area.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Textual address Vs GPS coordinates
Link the search results list to a Google map