Address doesn't exist in the locations autocomplete

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There is a location of a client’s shopfront which doesn’t appear when I enter the location.

Is there any way to override the location behaviour so I can save the address? I know it exists

Edit: The places don’t seem to like Unit numbers e.g., Unit 2 / 50 [Address here]

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Technically possible, but not so simple.

The backend format of addresses is the following:

{“longitude”:-57.667743,“latitude”:-16.099597,“fullAddress”:“Rua Dos Garcia 20, Nova Era, Cáceres - Mato Grosso, 78206-555, Brazil”,“addressParts”:{“address”:“Rua Dos Garcia”,“neighborhood”:“Nova Era”,“postcode”:“78206-555”,“place”:“Cáceres”,“region”:“Mato Grosso”,“country”:“Brazil”}}

If you go into table view and copy the cell, you’re able to paste it in anywhere, edit the part where it says “fullAddress” and paste it back into that cell and the text will change. Just keep in mind that on the map view it will obey the longitude and latitude. And that if you ever start using formulas to get the different address parts there might be inconsistency between your fullAddress and your addressParts.

Bonus: I just found out you can add whatever addressParts to the address. So if you want to a prefix, in order preserve the fulladress inside the addressparts, you can paste in something like this:

{“longitude”:-57.667743,“latitude”:-16.099597,“fullAddress”:“Rua Dos Garcia 20, Nova Era, Cáceres - Mato Grosso, 78206-555, Brazil”,“addressParts”:{“prefix”:“Unit 5”,“address”:“Rua Dos Garcia”,“neighborhood”:“Nova Era”,“postcode”:“78206-555”,“place”:“Cáceres”,“region”:“Mato Grosso”,“country”:“Brazil”}}

And then in the formula field just add AddressPart(Location, “prefix”), and its still fetchable.

BUT! If you need to so this a lot its gonna get annoying… And if you think you’ll never need to see the addresses on a map view, get parts, or get longitude or latitude, just save them as a text field. The MapBox API Fibery uses to get the addresses has been a hit or miss in a lot of cases for me, especially to get exact street and house number of many “non-western” countries.

You can use something like this: Online Geocoding Free tool | Geoapify

To get all the info (long and lat and address parts), then give it to chatgpt and tell it the format fibery wants it (must be single line json), and it converts it for you. But again, a lot of work to just input an address.

Hope this helps!

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Related request I think: Location field customization