# Locations Plugin 🌍

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/locations-plugin/69742>\
**Category:** Plugin\
**Tags:** paid-support\
**Created:** [September 10, 2017, 10:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/locations-plugin/69742 "2017-09-10T10:36:41Z")\
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> [@dsims](#):
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> When editing a topic to add location, the `TopicLocation` is not created, so it doesn’t appear on the map. Seems due to the `location` custom\_field string not being parsed correctly.

Cannot repro.

For something to appear on the map you need to have searched for, found and selected a specific location and then it will then have a geo location which is required for it to appear on the map.

Just giving something a name and hitting save will not instantiate a geo location and therefore it won’t appear on the map. You must select a specific returned address.

 ![This image is a simple map showing the locations and names of several cities in the United Kingdom, with markers for Oxford, Cambridge, London, Coventry, and others. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/a/1/9a149493e027fce4d0abf665a0bc76b7128edc7f.jpeg)

> [@dsims](#):
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> When viewing a category, the locations don’t appear in the topic list, because of using the “before category” outlet

Good catch. I note it will still show if the Category has a sub-Category, but that’s not particularly helpful 🙂

This is tricky, we are between a rock and hard place here.

@david would you accept a PR to add a plugin outlet:

`topic-list-after-badges`

because we can’t use `topic-list-after-title` because that will render before the badge, which looks rubbish, and we can’t use `topic-list-before-category` because that’s not rendered always?

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