[Resolved] Find by distance not working consistently

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[simonC-7]

***I am trying to:
Perform a search based on distance. But some locations do not show listings within the miles stipulated, instead it shows all listings at all distances

***Link to a page where the issue can be seen:
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***I expected to see:

Results based on distance from the location chosen.

Instead, I got:

If I leave the distance at 5 miles, type in HP13 for the location > Personal Policy > Health Insurance, it wrongly shows all listings at any distance. Clearly these are not within 5 miles of the location chosen.

If I do the same but for the location HP12 it correctly shows the 2 listings.

It is behaving incorrectly like this for other random locations that I try too eg:
RG1 - ***incorrectly displays all listings at any distance***
50 miles - Birmingham, UK - ***displays correctly***
50 miles - Birmingham, UK, Grayswood Road, Longbridge, Birmingham, UK - ***incorrectly displays all results at any distance***

[Christopher Amirian]

Hi there,

I checked with HP13 and it gives me two locations attached to the screenshot.

Would you please test it with another browser or clear your browser cache?

Also please be aware that there is a bug in the Google Maps API that might contribute to the issue:

https://toolset.com/errata/search-by-distance-may-produce-wrong-results/

Thanks.

[simonC-7]

Thanks Christopher, I have temporarily resolved the issue by logging into Google API and removing the restriction Website restriction.

I had received a warning email from Google saying that the API was unrestricted and the key was potentially open to abuse. So, the sensible thing to do seemed to be to restrict it to the website URL. However, this seems to be causing the problem.

How can I protect the API key without breaking the functionality of Toolset maps?

[Mateus Getulio]

Hello there,

Thanks for your reply.

You can add a key with restrictions (URL referrer restrictions) as the first key, and an unrestricted key as the second key. More info:
- https://toolset.com/course-lesson/creating-a-maps-api-key/#problems-with-displaying-markers-on-google-maps
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35288250/google-maps-javascript-api-referernotallowedmaperror

Further, here is a related ticket where one of ours user solved the issue about http referer:
- https://toolset.com/forums/topic/google-maps-api-validation-restriction-error/#post-1809879

Can you please try to follow that and check if that helps? Thank you, please let me know.

Regards,
Mateus.

[simonC-7]

Many thanks Mateus,

Restricting the first key to domain.com and using an unrestricted 2nd key worked.

Note to others... only setting the domain to domain.com worked for me, adding http:// or https:// caused it not to work. I have read multiple comments in the links above where it worked for some and not others.