I need a complete guide for Glide Maps Component

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Does @Robert_Petitto have a video for this. Any video resources would be helpful

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Can you state what you’re struggling with?

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I seem to remember that Robert had a nice video tutorial for the maps component but i cannot find it anywhere. I was hoping to use that resource to just make sure that i’m using best practices for my maps component.
Example:

  • is it better to put all addresses on it’s own table or can we create an address column on our main table
  • i sometimes get a completely random address from another country even when i use gps co-ordinates as the address

I find the maps component almost as difficult as working with dates and times, you think you’ve understood it, then it throws you another curved ball and you’re stuck wasting time trouble shooting for another few hours. Aaaaaarrrrgggghhh!!!

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Can you give specific examples so we can help?

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What main table are you referring to? I think I would recommend a table of locations and using that table as the data source of the maps component.

Are you using lat-long coordinates? These work usually better than addresses.

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Please show us how you’re configuring your tables. I think the rule is that as long as you use coordinates within a text column, it should be safe.

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I’ve noticed that the lat on long copies across in brackets, when i delete the brackets it works properly.

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I was using a relation from my main table to pull the address through from the venues table. Then i lookup that relation. The maps component doesn’t seem to always work with the lookup column, but i’m not sure it’s the column or the way the address is written.
I was hoping someone had a link for a petito video about the maps component, im sure i saw something in the past but i can’t find the video link on google or any of the AI Search apps.
It seems to be working now but the worst thing is not knowing how i fixed it🤣

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Addresses are hit or miss with the map component. Really depends on the address because it still needs to geocode the addresses into coordinates behind the scenes. Addresses will work some of the time. Coordinates will work 100% of the time.

The use of the lookup column shouldn’t make a difference as long as the value being looked up is available.

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