# Address input autocomplete with optional "current location"

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/address-input-autocomplete-with-optional-current-location/15613>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [September 10, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/address-input-autocomplete-with-optional-current-location/15613 "2020-09-10T22:40:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Mauronic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mauronic/32/21726_2.png) [@Mauronic](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mauronic)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/address-input-autocomplete-with-optional-current-location/15613/1 "2020-09-10T22:40:22Z")

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I would like the user to be able to enter a location for a place or use their current location (for ease of use and accuracy).

My current solution is to ask for address or current location and then have a IF/Then field that takes the coordinates or the address and use that.

However, this has some issues:

- I have to leave both fields as not-required and therefore can’t validate that they entered an address
- Picking current location does not show human-readable feedback so they can see it worked
- If there is an issue with getting the users current location, I am not even sure what would happen with this design. For example, what happens if they denied location permissions?

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/address-input-autocomplete-with-optional-current-location/15613/2 "2020-09-11T00:04:14Z")

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> [@Mauronic](#):
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> For example, what happens if they denied location permissions?

Agree with all of your points as I faced this before. Regarding this, Glide said yesterday in a thread they’re working on an appropriate message for this.

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**Author:** ![Mauronic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mauronic/32/21726_2.png) [@Mauronic](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mauronic)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/address-input-autocomplete-with-optional-current-location/15613/3 "2020-09-11T00:33:32Z")

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Awesome! Thanks for letting me know 😀

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/address-input-autocomplete-with-optional-current-location/15613/4 "2020-09-11T00:49:21Z")

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> [@Localization not toggling?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/localization-not-toggling/15508/21):
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> We’re working on giving the user feedback when Glide can’t get the location from the browser.

It’s here, for your information.

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**Author:** ![Mauronic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mauronic/32/21726_2.png) [@Mauronic](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mauronic)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/address-input-autocomplete-with-optional-current-location/15613/5 "2020-10-02T21:00:03Z")

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Adding link to feature request if anyone wants to vote on this 😉

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