# GEO Tagging ability for topics

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/geo-tagging-ability-for-topics/30645>\
**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:** 8

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![barryparr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/barryparr/32/105155_2.png) [@barryparr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barryparr)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/geo-tagging-ability-for-topics/30645/8 "2015-08-16T20:02:12Z")

</div>

I’m interested. I’m not sure how locations should be entered. Some thoughts:

- Automatic recognition of addresses in text would be ideal, I think, if it’s practical.

- Automatic recognition of geographic keywords (cities, neighborhoods, businesses) from a list maintained by an admin. That would be great for some sites (like mine) and impractical for everyone else.

- Fielded entry of addresses or lat/long pairs is the least flexible, but the easiest to implement & maintain. It would result in fewer defined locations than automatic recognition and would mean that each entry would have location fields that might be left empty in most posts.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/geo-tagging-ability-for-topics/30645)._