# Using Maps & Locations
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/using-maps-locations/43241
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [June 18, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/using-maps-locations/43241 "2022-06-18T22:30:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@jgliftoff](https://community.glideapps.com/u/jgliftoff)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/using-maps-locations/43241/1 "2022-06-18T22:30:44Z")
Hi folks. I am creating a work order management / job tracking app for my remote crews who repair municipal sidewalks.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to add a Google Maps lookup to the Jobs database.
Location doesn’t seem to be a data or form element? Am I missing something?
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/using-maps-locations/43241/2 "2022-06-18T23:08:56Z")
Can you explain what you mean by “Google Maps lookup”?
Location is a component to collect the user’s location in coordinates form, but it is static and won’t update over time.
> **[Location Component (Apps)](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/topics/components/app-components/input/location-component)**
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> Log your current location
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### Author:  [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/using-maps-locations/43241/3 "2022-06-18T23:11:10Z")
Maybe @jgliftoff means he cannot figure out how to display location pins on a map?
If this is the case: create a liste or inline list, and set the display layout type to `map`.
[Map layout](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/topics/components/app-components/lists/layouts/map-list)
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### Author:  [@jgliftoff](https://community.glideapps.com/u/jgliftoff)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/using-maps-locations/43241/4 "2022-06-18T23:44:47Z")
Hello @nathanaelb and @ThinhDinh and thanks for the replies! I am trying to achieve the latter - pins on a map. But before I get to the display, I am trying to figure out how I can get an address field using Glide Tables (see image)
I would like to have a specific address for each row, and display the map on the details page in the web app. Do I need to capture the address fields (Unit, Street, City, Region, Country, Code) separately?
Thanks again.
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### Author:  [@jgliftoff](https://community.glideapps.com/u/jgliftoff)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/using-maps-locations/43241/5 "2022-06-18T23:52:06Z")
I call it a Google Maps Lookup as I was thinking about the form input - I would love to have the standard Google ‘type-ahead’ functionality.
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2022, 12:35am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/using-maps-locations/43241/6 "2022-06-19T00:35:11Z")
So you’re letting the users fill that themselves? To make it easier, I think it should be a single field.
> [@jgliftoff](#):
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> I call it a Google Maps Lookup as I was thinking about the form input - I would love to have the standard Google ‘type-ahead’ functionality.
This is, to be clear, not easy to achieve. Please follow the tutorial below to use the Geoapify API.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a8t7fRhdo4)
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### Author:  [@jgliftoff](https://community.glideapps.com/u/jgliftoff)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/using-maps-locations/43241/7 "2022-06-19T01:42:25Z")
Thanks @ThinhDinh, I appreciate the clarity. I’m looking for easy to achieve 🙂 Going to have to sacrifice the form experience and just focus on the data.
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### Author:  [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/using-maps-locations/43241/8 "2022-06-19T09:39:00Z")
You’re on the right path. To keep it simple, here’s how I would approach it:
1. Input an address manually in your Glide Table, in a text basic column. Check if the pin displays on the map. “Eg. 100 boulevard Leclerc, Paris” or is the zip code required.
2. In the builder, on your screen, include a text input component that writes to the text column in 1. Now your setup should work.
3. Your setup in prone to error, to improve it:
3a. In your table, instead of one text column, create multiple: street, zip, city (for instance). Join this data in a final column called “Full address”, this column is a template column.
3b. Instead of one text input component, create multiple: street, zip, city. Make “required” as needed. Now your “Full address” column should be populating with the data submitted.
4. Your setup in 3 is now better, but it is still prone to error because it is not validating the existence of the address. Use Thinh’s method with a 3rd party geo API that validates in real time your address and suggests the correct format.