Longitude and latitude is not used for locations

The Google Geocode indeed returns different coordinates for the address you provided then the coordinates you have below that.

The location is supposed to be in Turkey, right?

Sometimes Google simply doesn’t recognize the address. The only way to fix this is by writing the address in a slightly different format.

I changed NO:227/A to 227 and removed the . between MAH.ZüBEYDE in the response above, and the returned coordinates are closer to what you have, and very different from the first API response.

"location" : {
  "lat" : 40.9691842,
 "lng" : 37.8974118
},

So if the response is wrong just re-write the address a bit and try again.

There are more than 1300 stores in DB. We bought CSV manager for this.
Most of the stores are showing random locations because of this problem.

We have all the coordinates of our stores from our vehicle tracking systems so we need a way to get this to work.

Even though we go over each one of them some addresses still show up wrong.

Another example:
Posta Sk. Ulus Ankara Turkey
This adress shows up in Istanbul even though we put Ankara in it..

The things that throws the geocoder off with the address above is ‘Ulus’. It’s an area in Anakra, right?

There is also a route in / near Istanbul that contain ‘Ulus’, and if there are multiple matches Google picks the one that it thinks is the most likely thing you are looking for

{
   "long_name" : "Ulus Sokak",
   "short_name" : "Ulus Sk.",
   "types" : [ "route" ]
},

I kind of would have expected since Ankara is included it would take the hint, but it clearly doesn’t.

I think the only way to make sure the addresses are correctly recognized by the Google Geocode API is to keep it as simple as possible.

So instead of NO:227/A make it 227A, MAH ZüBEYDE instead of MAH.ZüBEYDE ( no dot ), and leave out names of neighborhoods / city regions. Sometimes neighborhoods names exist in multiple cities, and clearly Google gets confused because of that.

So you are telling me that it is not possible to use coordinates in your plugin?

So you are telling me that it is not possible to use coordinates in your plugin?

Uhm What? Please don’t go down the road of putting words in my mouth or twisting things around!

As I explained twice the problem you have is caused by the Google Geocode API ( third party ) not correctly recognizing your address. This sometimes happens the way addresses in some countries are structured. The same happens sometimes with address in South Korea and other countries, as already explained simply simplifying the address WILL resolve it.

Simply changing the coordinates in the admin area and then saving he locations should also change it, in case you want to manually adjust the coordinates.

If you change it, save the page, does it show the manually entered coordinates? If so, and they are wrong on the map then they are cached somewhere. Try to enable the debug option on the WPSL settings page -> tools section.

Sorry if I misinterpret your answer.

My question was how to make sure we use coordinates of the stores that we manually entered since the address showing somewhere else.

Your last answer seems to be working I will check.

If it keeps showing the incorrect coordinates on the front-end, but it does show the adjusted ones in the back-end, then also try to disable all other plugins for a second to make sure nothing is interfering with it. And try it in private mode in your browser as well.