Location search on the advocate map now finds the nearest advocates
ImprovementWeek of June 29, 2026
Searching the admin advocate map by location now behaves like the public community site — it shows the nearest advocates instead of silently returning nothing when the closest one is more than 20 miles away.
- Nearest-first results — a
location:"49341"search returns advocates ordered by distance with no hard radius cap, so it never comes back empty when advocates exist. Previously it only looked within 20 miles and showed a blank map for anyone farther out. - Narrow it when you want — add a
distance:token (e.g.location:"Grand Rapids" distance:25mi) to cap the search to a specific radius. - Search-center pin — both the admin map and the public community map now drop a distinct pin at the exact spot you searched, so you can see how far each advocate is from it.
- Distance on hover — when a location search is active, hovering an advocate’s pin on the admin map now shows how far they are from the searched spot (e.g. “13 miles away”).
No admin action required.