Places and distances

Two catalog types handle location: places group your listings geographically, and distances describe how close a property is to points of interest.

Places

A place is a named area that listings can belong to — at any scale. It doesn’t have to be a town: country, region, coast, lake, island, valley, mountains, national park, city and neighbourhood are all valid types. “Lake Constance”, “Costa del Sol” and “the Cotswolds” are places just as much as “Konstanz” is.

Places are organised as a hierarchy, so you can nest a neighbourhood under a city under a region. That’s where the value is: a listing under “Old Town” is also found when a guest searches “Konstanz” or “Lake Constance”. On the storefront they let guests browse from broad to specific — and your top-level places become the default storefront navigation.

Manage them on the Places page, which uses a sidebar layout: places are listed on the left, and selecting one opens its detail panel on the right. Create or edit a place with the place editor, where you set:

• Type — the scale (country, region, coast, lake, city, neighbourhood…). There is deliberately no pre-selected default: among other things, the type decides how far the storefront map zooms out when a guest picks this place.
• Name — the place’s label (per language).
• Coordinates — an optional latitude/longitude. This is the centre of the area, not a street address.
• Show on map — whether the place is plotted on the storefront map.
• Description — an optional rich‑text description (per language), shown on the storefront property pages within this area.
• Parent — the place this one nests under, building the hierarchy.

Each place shows how many listings are assigned to it. A listing is always assigned to the most specific place that fits — the broader ones follow automatically. Use the Location section of the listing detail view, which also holds the listing’s own coordinates and postal address; those belong to the listing, not to the place.

AI place coordinates

From the Places page you can run an AI action that looks up coordinates for your places automatically, saving you from finding latitudes and longitudes by hand. See AI overview.

Distances

A distance type is a category of point‑of‑interest proximity — “beach”, “airport”, “city centre”, “ski lift”. You define the types in the catalog; the actual distance for each property is entered per listing.

Manage the types on the Distances page. Each distance type has:

• ID — a URL‑friendly identifier.
• Label — the display name (per language).
• Icon — the symbol shown next to it.
• Searchable — whether this distance becomes a storefront search filter.

Like amenities, distance types can be imported from or linked to the global catalog.

Distances on a listing

On a listing’s Distances section you record the real numbers: pick a distance type and enter how far the property is from it (for example, 500 m to the beach), or add a one‑off custom distance for that listing only. Distance types marked searchable let guests filter by proximity on the storefront — see Search and maps.