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Someone already requested this on the WordPress support forum.

This isn't something I am willing to develop currently as it would only make sense on mobile browsers, most desktop/laptop browsers are unable to geolocate accurately.

However, you can develop your own solution with this plugin as the gmap3 object is exposed.

1. Use the initialisation event to get a reference of the gmap3 object,
2. Clear the existing marker,

marker.setMap(null);
marker = null;

3. create a new marker at the location required.

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You can test your browser location here. It does not work for my browser due to privacy settings, and this is likely across the majority of browsers.

Developing this functionality in the plugin would not be very difficult, but it would likely end up having a lot of non-coder users complaining the plugin does not work and make support a headache.

Hence, I prefer to leave this out and give access to underlying objects for coders to implement this knowing the limitations of the functionality.

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What about using an IP lookup to identify rough location? User could then find the appropriate address to enter much quicker.

Cheers and nice suite of cf7 plugins

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Indeed, HTML5 Geolocation API already does (try it here). However, given that it uses a user's private information, it would also require special handling in the backend to comply with the EU's GDPR regulation.

Given the ease to implement this on a custom basis using the plugin's exposed js initialisation process, and the low number of request for this, I prefer to leave it out of the plugin.

it would likely end up having a lot of non-coder users complaining the plugin does not work and make support a headache.

another reason to leave it out...for now at least

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fair call, thanks for responding @aurovrata

all the best

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I may come back on this decision and implement in a future version....I am rather busy with the Post My CF7 Form plugin rewrite at this point of time.

Anyhow, I keep this issue open for now.

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