Title: Automatic geocoding
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Automatic geocoding

 *  Resolved [the_cats_paw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the_cats_paw/)
 * (@the_cats_paw)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-geocoding/)
 * I’ve uploaded about 1000+ placemarks with an csv importer and i’m facing a problem
   that none of the placemarks are showing up on the map because they are not being
   geocoded automatically (they show on the list of stores, but not on the map).
   
   If I go to each placemark manually and ‘Update’ it – it recognizes the address,
   geocodes fine and shows up on the map. Is this normal behavior? Any solution 
   to update/geocode 1000+ placemarks without opening all of them? Thanks.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/basic-google-maps-placemarks/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/basic-google-maps-placemarks/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Ian Dunn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iandunn/)
 * (@iandunn)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-geocoding/#post-6207290)
 * That’s normal, yes. WordPress has a bulk-edit function, so you may be able to
   use that to do many at once, but i’ve never tried it.
 * You can set to screen options to show 100 posts at a time, then click on the ‘
   select all’ checkbox, then bulk edit them and change something trivial.
 * If that doesn’t work, you’d need to write a small script to update them all.
 *  Plugin Author [Ian Dunn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iandunn/)
 * (@iandunn)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-geocoding/#post-6207292)
 * It might be easier to try deleting and re-importing them, and then make sure 
   that the meta fields get imported. These threads might have some useful info:
 * * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-basic-google-maps-placemarks-mass-import-csv-sample-file?replies=6](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-basic-google-maps-placemarks-mass-import-csv-sample-file?replies=6)
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   [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-google-maps-placemarks-import-multiple-locations?replies=2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-google-maps-placemarks-import-multiple-locations?replies=2)*
   [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mass-import-of-placemarks-with-proper-categories?replies=3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mass-import-of-placemarks-with-proper-categories?replies=3)
 *  Thread Starter [the_cats_paw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the_cats_paw/)
 * (@the_cats_paw)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-geocoding/#post-6207539)
 * Ian, thank you for your reply.
    “bulk edit them and change something trivial.”–
   this was the first thing i did and it didn’t work. I went through your posts 
   and couldn’t find a solution that would work for me. Here’s what I did though:
   1. I geocoded all the addresses manually with this service: [http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/](http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/)
   Basically, it takes all you addresses, finds them on the map and returns latitude
   and longitude. Works great for latin character addresses, and not so accurate
   for addresses in cyrillic (you need to provide a certain address template. try“
   streetname, housenumber, zipcode, city, country”). Then you can save them as 
   GPX and convert it to CSV (google for gpx to csv converter). 2. I updated existing
   placemarks’ latitude and longitide with wp-all-import plugin.
 * Maybe this solution could help someone.
 *  Plugin Author [Ian Dunn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iandunn/)
 * (@iandunn)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-geocoding/#post-6207545)
 * Awesome, thanks for posting those for everyone 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Ian Dunn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iandunn/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-geocoding/#post-6207545)
 * Status: resolved