I had tried first with the co-ordinates I had entered as found on the sites recommended, but the places didn't show up so I removed them in my test tree with no effect; only Melbourne shows up.

Is this normal  or am I missing something ?

The Google Maps API first uses the co-ordinates installed in Genopro for each Place, in the metric form e.g. -33.123456 and 140.123456 .  If no co-ordinates are supplied then the system will try to search using a very limited geomapping function, which works ok in most of the World, except UK. Uk addresses are not currently included.  If the co-ordinates are entered via Genopro then the map will locate and display those co-ordinates.

Please note that Hobart, Tasmania is not correct for geomapping. It should be entered as Hobart,Australia or Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The country is neceesary, not necessarily the State, except to overcome amiguities.

Poolzone  a mere cog in a revolution

Update:-

I gave it a try with the correct type of coordinates and the result was very interesting ! :P

I change the default value in the config.xml ==> GoogleMaps="Y" and its work very good.

With decimal coordinates there is no problem. With USA address neither.

I found a trouble with degrees  because it doesn't recognize this lat: 25º 35' N ; lon 35º 15' W  (may be the especial character º, blankspaces or anything else)

Congratulations !!

He had one question, is there any way of surpressing the text box from automatically popping up?  I would think this was a purely GoogleMaps feature.

You can prevent the information bubble from appearing by removing the lines

marker.openInfoWindowHtml(strPlace);

and

marker.openInfoWindowHtml(place.address + '<br>' +           '<b>Country code:</b> ' + place.AddressDetails.Country.CountryNameCode + '<br>' +    '<g>Grid Reference:</b> ' + place.Point.coordinates[1] + '/' + place.Point.coordinates[0]);

towards the end of script.js in a custom skin.