COGF Meeting Locator
About This Search Engine
You can search for meetings four different ways.
- By Area: Select North, East, West, South, Central, or Out of Town, then select a day
- By City: Select a city, then select a day
- Near Your Address: Enter an address - please make it as complete as possible - then select a radius and a day
- By Group Name: Enter the group name - or part of the group name
Results are displayed ten at a time and displayed on a map. The map markers are labeled A through J.
Meeting Type Codes
When meeting results are displayed, "meeting type" codes appear to the right, underneath the day and time.
| ABSI | As Bill Sees It | LWD | Last Week Discussion |
| BB | Big Book | LWS | Last Week Speaker |
| BEG | Beginner's Meeting | MS | Mini Speaker |
| CC | Chairman's Choice | OD | Open Discussion |
| CD | Closed Discussion | OGRD | Open Grapevine Discussion |
| CGRD | Closed Grapevine Discussion | OS | Open Speaker |
| CS | Closed Speaker | OSTD | Open Step Discussion |
| CSTD | Closed Step Discussion | RF | Rotating Format |
| GR | Grapevine | ST | Step Meeting |
| LIT | Literature |
Closed meetings are only for persons who have – or think they may have – a problem with alcohol. Open meetings are open to anyone interested. Click here to view/download a PDF with the above meeting codes.
Browser Requirements
A web browser is the program you are using to read this page. There are many kinds of browsers: Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Safari, AOL Explorer, Konqueror, etc.
In order to use this site, you must have javascript enabled, and your browser must meet certain minimum requirements (basically, it can't be too old).
Click here to find out how to enable javascript on your browser.
Click here to see which browsers are compatible with Google Maps.
Click here to visit the Google Maps Help Center if you are having difficulty loading the map.
How to Interact With the Map
Hover: If you move or "hover" your mouse over a marker, a window appears with meeting information. See image below.
Click: If you single-click a marker, a "zoom" window appears. See image below.
Click "away": If you click on the map (away from a "zoom" window), the "zoom" window will close.
Drag a marker: If two or more meetings are in the same location, you can drag a marker and move it. Note: if you move a marker, its "zoom" window will contain the area where you moved the marker, not the meeting location.
Drag the map: You can move the map around by dragging it! Just click somewhere on the map and move your mouse.
Double-click: Double-click any point on the map to make it the center.
Zoom and pan: Zoom in and out, or pan in any direction using the control in the top-left corner of the map.
New Meeting or Corrections
If you attend a meeting that is not listed here, or you need to make any changes to meeting information listed on this site, please contact us.
Search For Meetings...
| By Area | OR... By City | OR... Near Your Address * | OR... By Group ** |
If this is the first time you have ever done a meeting search, please read this first! It will take less than a minute!
* For best results in address searches:
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** Group search will match on parts of words. Example: entering "tri" will result in:
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