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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Can’t help thinking that in this day & age there must be a better way of determining Location and Surrounding Area.
I’m based in Mid-Cheshire, a CW9 postcode, and I am closer to Knutsford & Warrington than I am to Nantwich or Crewe, but for me to search by location or see local feeds of people nearby, I end up constantly having to swap the postcode in my account settings.
Surely there must be a way for the Developers to change this, so you can put your postcode in and it searches a radius (5, 10, 20 miles) from that postcode.
Thoughts? |
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I find that if I do a search for people near me and then drive for an hour and do another I get results from the original location and am unable to refresh.
The only way I can make it work is to turn the phone off and then on again. |
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By *va_and_IanCouple
over a year ago
Vera Playa, Mojácar, Almeria |
Evan worse...we live in Spain. We show up correctly in the mobile GPS who is near but shows us in Birmingham I'm the search because I used to live in Birmingham. There is no option to out a Spanish town as an address. |
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"Evan worse...we live in Spain. We show up correctly in the mobile GPS who is near but shows us in Birmingham I'm the search because I used to live in Birmingham. There is no option to out a Spanish town as an address."
This - but even worse as I live in Abu Dhabi / Dubai. I know there’s lots of Fabbers out here, but unless they show up as ‘who’s near’, they are all going unnoticed. |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
"I live in East Sussex (Hastings)and I went to london for the weekend. Now when I search who's near me just show london. Why isn't my location updated?"
It's due to your device history so clear past location history |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm near a Postcode border where northwales becomes midwales.
My postcode is LL but
LL is Llandudno -almost 2 hours north of where I am.
I'm 10 mins from SY postcode but if i change to a postcode down the road, the SY is Shrewsbury? Which is a good hour and a half or more away.
So the local feed is useless to me.
I just hotlist the locals  |
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If I set my search parameters above 40 miles the majority of profiles that show up are in Scotland or the North of England.
If I want to search Ireland I have to change my location from UK to Ireland and that search is by county only as it's not set up for postcodes. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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This is just the way services like the Google and Bing Maps APIs work. If using GPS you can get an accurate distance but using the first half of a postcode they tend to just report back the geographical centre of the region. Also if the site just uses something like 'neary_by_update_list = user_profile_postcode' then it's just pulling whatever other's have put in as their postcode.
Chose a postcode for whatever suits you best or use the search profiles and specify the distance rather than the updates and see who's near list.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The location has always been an issue on the site.
Leeds in not in the North East for instance, I think the web designers need to have a look at the while location issue. |
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"I'm near a Postcode border where northwales becomes midwales.
My postcode is LL but
LL is Llandudno -almost 2 hours north of where I am.
I'm 10 mins from SY postcode but if i change to a postcode down the road, the SY is Shrewsbury? Which is a good hour and a half or more away.
So the local feed is useless to me.
I just hotlist the locals "
I think fab uses the Letters and numbers, the first half of a postcode, not just the Letters, eg the SY you gave.
I border a selection of postcode towns but Fab pulls them all in, if I do an advanced search, eg for within 20 miles of the 1st half of my postcode. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Can’t help thinking that in this day & age there must be a better way of determining Location and Surrounding Area.
I’m based in Mid-Cheshire, a CW9 postcode, and I am closer to Knutsford & Warrington than I am to Nantwich or Crewe, but for me to search by location or see local feeds of people nearby, I end up constantly having to swap the postcode in my account settings.
Surely there must be a way for the Developers to change this, so you can put your postcode in and it searches a radius (5, 10, 20 miles) from that postcode.
Thoughts? "
If people care then they use people near me which is accurate, if you're a member that is. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Can’t help thinking that in this day & age there must be a better way of determining Location and Surrounding Area.
I’m based in Mid-Cheshire, a CW9 postcode, and I am closer to Knutsford & Warrington than I am to Nantwich or Crewe, but for me to search by location or see local feeds of people nearby, I end up constantly having to swap the postcode in my account settings.
Surely there must be a way for the Developers to change this, so you can put your postcode in and it searches a radius (5, 10, 20 miles) from that postcode.
Thoughts? "
Then again if you hide your profile it won't matter. |
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