Acknowledging privacy concerns raised by Etsy sellers, Jared disabled the ability to search by place on Geolocator3 for now:
jared says:
Hi, we hear your voice for privacy concerns. The ability to search by place has been disabled and will not be re-enabled until a good solution is found.Most likely we will make the ability for a buyer to find you by your location an opt-in for sellers. You can choose whether you want to appear on the map or not. By default a seller will not appear on the map.
Remember that we create these features to help you as sellers be more successful. Thank you for helping us get it right.
Posted at 12:17 am, August 15 2007 EST
Read previous post about Geolocator3 here.
UPDATE by Soap
As of August 19, seller location (city or town) displays. About 2 days ago, Geo3 had been displaying “Ayrshire, Scotland” for any seller. I thought that was the interim solution to having what appeared to be seller’s billing (or former billing) locations displayed. In some cases, the city provided is not publicly disclosed on the Etsy seller’s profile.
August 28th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
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August 19th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
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August 19th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
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August 17th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Facade,
Good points. If I had to guess, I’d guess most sellers would be OK with displaying their state/province/equivalent in the geo3. That’s pretty much the info displayed on the current geolocator. Even then, I hope Etsy does the full-disclosure/opt-in or out thing if the info is coming from billing info (the only address sellers are REQUIRED to submit to open a store).