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"non-truncated location descriptions"

Click on each, and you go to that flag on the map, with a text box containing the full text.

Not ideal, but I think that's a google thing.

Embedding Google Maps in one's own site would probably be a better solution. It also helps if you have a bunch of reference points concentrated in the UK or in some other small region (you could have one world map and one UK map). That would make things clearer.

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