map geomywp to existing custom post type meta

  • First of all, great plugin.

    …..However, I had previously built a custom post type that uses the following custom meta already for our listings database.

    • street address
    • city
    • state
    • zip

    There’s also phone number and other info in their own respective custom metas, however, the ones in the list above are the ones I am concerned with.

    Your plugin creates its own custom fields to which it stores the required data in the database to use when it does it’s geo search queries, however, I already have this data in our own pre-built custom meta fields and it obviously wouldn’t be best practice to have duplicate data being stored in the database, so I’m hoping we can just map your plugin to use our existing custom meta fields…..what say you? Any thoughts on this? Any suggestions?

    Thanks in advance.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/geo-my-wp/

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  • Plugin Author Eyal Fitoussi

    (@ninjew)

    Hi,
    Up to GEO my WP version 2.3 ( which is the current version ) the plugin saves the location data in its custom fields but most importantly in it’s own table in database.
    In the new version of GEO my WP 2.4 which I will release soon I dropped the support of custom fields just because it is unnecessary for the plugin and create duplicates since the data is already being stored in the custom table.

    The custom table of GEO my WP contains the address components ( street, city ,state and so on) , the latitude/longitude and the additional information( phone,fax and so on). GEO my WP uses custom table for the main reason that it is much better for SQL performance when doing queries.

    And so, you won’t be able to map the location information to the custom fields that you use because the queries happening in the custom table of GEO my WP. Also, and most important, each location must have latitude and longitude in order to be searchable. So when you create a location using GEO my WP the address you enter is being geocoded and the lat/long and address component being saved in the custom table.

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