# GEO Tagging ability for topics **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [June 30, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/geo-tagging-ability-for-topics/30645 "2015-06-30T16:26:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![returningfromelba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@returningfromelba](https://meta.discourse.org/u/returningfromelba)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/geo-tagging-ability-for-topics/30645/1 "2015-06-30T16:26:04Z")
Sometimes a discussion might occur where it’s important to know the ‘where’ of the discussion context. For example, if discussing ‘illegal waste dumping’ having context as to which municipality this is happening in would be very useful. This may also encourage people for form physical community (not just virutal community) by realizing that they are involved in a discussion where context is near to them. Perhaps the tagging plugin can be leveraged for this but it would be really nice to have the option for a user to indicate which geographical areas they are interested in or live in, in order to highlight topics physicially near to them, and also to tag topics with locations that can be searched on. MySQL has nice GIS features that could be leveraged for this. What do you guys think? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/geo-tagging-ability-for-topics/30645)._