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Same here. Even when I put in my zipcode, it's not finding me and dropping me at 0,0. The name of my location shows up correctly in the search box, but it returns no results and drops me in the ocean. I can scroll around the map and zoom into my city, but it finds no results.

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Hm, I think I understand the problem. Back to the code to see if I can track it down. :)

Ok, figured it out! Should be all fixed now.

It got the right place, but it still can't find restaurants near me. I can do the restaurant search and it will find those restaurants near me.

If it helps, I am proxying through California, but I'm actually in Arizona

There probably aren't any restaurants in the database near your location. When you search for a specific restaurant, YumHacker checks it's database as well as querying the Google Places API to look for matches. If you endorse a restaurant, it will get saved in the database and it will appear on the map when you search nearby.

This is a UX problem I'll have to think about going forward.

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