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Wow, thanks for telling it's not obvious. There are two ways. You can write a normal post, but give it a valid street address as the title (you can leave off zip, it will figure it out) and check the "Property Gossip" checkbox.

The easier way is to use this form:

http://patrick.net/?p=217

Just enter an address and a comment. Please let me know what would make it clearer. I'm too close to it to see it as regular users would.

I changed the "Title" field in http://patrick.net/wp-admin/post-new.php to be labelled like this:

Title (use a street address for "Property Gossip" forum)

Think that helps? Maybe there's some better wording.

Patrick
Tried to post '140 Azalea Drive, Mountain View, CA' It is not recognizing it as a valid address...
any help?

thanks

Wow, that address doesn't show up in Google maps (I use Google maps to validate addresses).

But it does show up in Movoto:
http://www.movoto.com/real-estate/homes-for-sale/CA/Mountain-View/140-Azalea-Dr-100_80820971.htm

Either Google maps just doesn't know that address, or legally it's something different.

Yahoo maps doesn't have it either. Really weird.

I am trying to post this new development : http://www.visitwildorchid.com/
Most of the new addresses don't resolve on Google/Yahoo maps. Mapping products lag a few months.

So only allowing addresses on Google/Yahoo maps, will not allow posting new-new developments.

How about allowing something that looks like an address?
Regex for address : http://regexlib.com/DisplayPatterns.aspx?cattabindex=6&categoryId=7

thanks

Most people don't know the zip code of any given address, and I was planning to use the zip codes for alerts and grouping features I plan to add later. Google maps gives the zip codes so users don't need to.

The regular expression thing would work, and I could fill in the zip code from Google maps at least for the cases where it's there. OK, that's on my list of things to do.

But here's a workaround for now: just create your post in a different forum, like Miscellaneous, then edit it and change the category to Property Gossip.