WpResidence: map zoomed out or listings clustered

The WpResidence map zooms out to fit every pin on the current page. When one listing sits far from the rest, the map widens to include it and everything else collapses into a cluster in one corner. The fault is almost always a single property’s coordinates, not the map settings.

The same mechanism explains a map that opens over the ocean.

Why one pin drags the whole map

The theme calculates the bounds of all the pins in the current result set and fits the view to them. One listing placed a hundred miles away, or placed at latitude 0 and longitude 0 which sits in the Atlantic off West Africa, forces the view out to include it.

There is no zoom setting that overrides this. Fix the outlying pin and the map returns to a sensible view on its own.

Finding the listing responsible

1. Look at the map and find the pin sitting on its own, away from the cluster.
2. Click it and open that property in the WordPress editor.
3. Scroll to the location section and press Place Pin with Property Address.
4. Compare where the pin lands with where it was. A large jump means the coordinates that came with the listing are wrong. Landing in the same place means the location is real data and the map is telling the truth.

Why moving the pin by hand does not hold

Latitude and longitude are imported from the MLS feed on every sync. Correcting them in the WordPress editor works until the next update of that listing, which writes the feed’s values back over yours.

So there are two real outcomes. If the coordinates are wrong in the feed, it is a data issue to raise with your MLS, since that is the only place a permanent fix exists. If they are correct, the map is showing where the property actually is and the view is behaving as designed.

What you can do on your side is keep the listing out of the result set that the map is drawing, by narrowing the import task‘s filters so a stray listing outside your market is never imported.

The map does not reload as you move it

This is a separate question that arrives with the same ticket. The WpResidence search map shows the pins for the listings in the current results and auto zooms to fit them. It does not re-run the search when a visitor pans or zooms, and the theme has no search this area control.

That is theme behaviour, not something MLSImport influences. MLSImport supplies the listings and their coordinates, and the theme decides how the map draws. A request for map driven searching belongs with the WpResidence team.

Frequently asked questions

Does MLSImport work out coordinates when the MLS does not send them?

No. Latitude and longitude are imported when the feed provides them and left empty when it does not. A property with no coordinates cannot be placed on the map.

Why does my MLS have no coordinates for some listings?

Because they were never entered or never published on that feed. A useful check is the listing on the MLS’s own portal: if it shows no map there either, the source data is missing rather than the import.

Can I hide properties with no coordinates from the map?

Not through MLSImport, since what the map draws is decided by the theme’s query. The practical route is to remove or unpublish the individual properties, or to narrow the import so they never arrive.

All my listings are on the coast. Is that the same problem?

Usually yes, seen from the other side. The listings are correctly placed and one distant pin has widened the view so far that a coastal market looks like a line of dots. Find the outlier rather than adjusting the map.

Related

1. MLSImport with WpResidence
2. Controlling which listings are imported
3. Understanding RESO fields
4. Import History and the activity log

Send us a link to the page with the bad map and we will identify the outlying listing for you.