New Data Type: Location

[Jacob_Clayton]

Could you add a new data type for locations? Types of locations that would be useful are:
-Address (123 First St, City, State)
-Lat / Long (31.12345, -110.12345)
-Military Grid Reference System (11S NV 12345 12345)

This would be incredibly useful if the location is a hyperlink to a map (similar to how an address in the Long Text data field will open up in Apple Maps).

Additionally, if a list of locations on a table could be viewed in a single map view allowing the map to display all of the locations from the table.

[Lucas_Janon]

Did you found a way to do that?

[Bryan_Smith]

I’ve built some intersting map formulas to share for ride booking using fields [Pickup,Destination]

I’m trying to build a url for street view but it’s not working because it wants Lat/Lon instead of street addresses. Is there anyway to convert a street address to lat/lon in airtable?

Directions from current location to Pickup
“https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Current+Location/” & SUBSTITUTE(Pickup," “,”+")

Directions from Pickup to Destination
“https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&origin=” & SUBSTITUTE(Pickup," “,”+") & “&layer=t&destination=” & SUBSTITUTE(Destination," “,”+")

[Bryan_Smith]

This could be the answer for many people here that want to build databases and add autopopulated geolocation fields.

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[Aristeidis_Zagk]

wow…3.5 years and still nothing about this.
map block is nice, but still. in order to make proper location data, you need at least 3 columns…i am sure you can do better.

[Andrew_Enright]

Agreed. Blocks are and always will be secondary to the primary Airtable UI. We need a true location field, not a maps block.

[Cody_Klimper]

I am trying to make the switch from Monday .com to Airtable and I am really needing this location feature. I run an embroidery shop as well as make custom apparel from scratch all in Southern California. I would need this feature so that when I myself go out to pick up all of my product from different vendors and contractors, or send a driver out, it is clear where to go. Shouldn’t be hard to add a simple click feature that opens up in a map. It exists on Monday .com and I’m hesitant to switch over to Airtable without the feature.

[Jared_Ekas]

This is huge. Sharepoint lists have it and it makes life so easy.

[Daniel_Cazzulin]

How can this still not be supported, years after a gazillion concrete scenarios where provided and where it’s been made abundantly clear that the maps block is not simple/intuitive enough?

Disappointed :(. BTW, if that was a premium only feature, I think I would pay for it.

[Yonathan_Morale]

Definetely a needed one. It shouldn’t be that hard, please do it.

[Jean-Philippe_E]

Quick question: I assume AirTable should not be use to store geolocation data of a device ? because if I store my location 10x 365d = 3650 with 50k record I will be quickly limited ?

Is there a workaround ? Store data in an SQL database then mix data between airtable and that database ? In a Block ?

Why I’d like to do something like Google Location History mixing a lot of data each day. But for instance “location” is too heavy for AirTable ?