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Hi - this is something that a client has requested, and I’m not sure how to do it! I’ve been using the geofinder plugin (which is great) on a project but the client has thrown in an awkward request - that each entry stored with geotagged data has a catchment area of x miles that means it will show up in a search if the user’s search radius overlaps the entry’s catchment radius (but not necessarily the coordinates of the entry itself).

Does that make sense? So I have a school that has a reach of 5 miles - someone searches outside the school’s postal code, but because it has a 5 mile reach the user’s search still finds it.

Is this very hard to achieve?

Hi -

This does sound like quite the challenge. It would definitely require writing code to modify Geofinder and would probably be best to create a separate “location_results” tag, maybe named “catchment_results”. You would have to do research the best way to construct a SQL query to handle catchments.

Best -
Jason