---
title: "Important: The partner map skips partners without coordinates"
manual: "Academic Partners"
version: "3.0"
permalink: "https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-partners:important-partner-map-skips-partners-without-coordinates@3.0"
source: "Changelog/2.4/Important-PartnerMapSkipsPartnersWithoutCoordinates.rst"
rendered: "2026-10-26T17:55:16+00:00"
---

# Important: The partner map skips partners without coordinates {#important-partner-map-skips-partners-without-coordinates}

## Description {#description}

A partner that was never geocoded was drawn at 0/0, in the open ocean off the
coast of Africa, several hundred kilometres from anything.

The map script skipped a partner only when a coordinate was not a number. A
partner without coordinates reached the page as `data-lat="0"`, because
the model types the coordinates as `float` defaulting to `0`, or as
an empty attribute from a template override. Both pass that test, since the
empty string converts to `0` as well.

Absence is tested on the raw attribute now, before the conversion that hides
it, and the pair 0/0 is refused whatever spelling it arrives in. It means
"nothing was written" rather than a place. A **single** zero is kept:
longitude 0 runs through the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Ghana, and
latitude 0 is the equator.

A partner that is skipped is still reported on the browser console, as before.
An unusable record is an editorial mistake, and silence would make it
invisible.

## Impact {#impact}

The map shows the partners that have a location and no longer invents one for
the others. An installation whose partners are all geocoded sees no difference.

## Affected Installations {#affected-installations}

Every installation that renders the partner map plugin with partners that carry
no coordinates. Nothing has to be done on update.

> [!NOTE]
> This is the client side. The query leaves such a partner out of the map as
> well, and an upgrade wizard fills the coordinates of existing translations,
> see [Important: The map shows only partners with a location](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/fgtclb/academic-partners:important-map-shows-only-located-partners@3.0). The partner list still
> lists it.