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Members Map
Posted:
Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:11 pm
by Moonwatcher
Just a thought, how about a map showing the location of "us lot", classic-audi use zeemaps.com, it's optional, i.e. the indivdual puts his or her location on a google type map and then all of a sudden we find how close we are to each other.
Re: Members Map
Posted:
Mon Apr 18, 2011 6:36 pm
by devonutopia
Just needs as admin to set it up I think. I usually, for a laugh, and security, have my location half a mile out to sea where I live rather than pointing at my drive where the car is....
Re: Members Map
Posted:
Tue Apr 19, 2011 6:36 am
by Moonwatcher
devonutopia wrote:Just needs as admin to set it up I think. I usually, for a laugh, and security, have my location half a mile out to sea where I live rather than pointing at my drive where the car is....
Agreed, It's safer just to locate by Town/City rather than postcode
Re: Members Map
Posted:
Tue Apr 19, 2011 4:12 pm
by MrToad
Best place to start would be to add a location to your profile. That way, anyone reading your posts knows where you are.
Re: Members Map
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2011 12:15 pm
by Moonwatcher
MrToad wrote:Best place to start would be to add a location to your profile. That way, anyone reading your posts knows where you are.
Some location names are not necesarily indicative of your location and a map will show an overview of the member's locations.
If I wanted to find out for instance "which members live in Cumbria?" without a map, I would have to access
every members profile, jot their location on a map and a few months later do it again,
Re: Members Map
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2011 12:35 pm
by MrToad
You could always start a thread titled: "which members live in Cumbria?".
Re: Members Map
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:16 pm
by IVORTHE DRIVER
MrToad wrote:You could always start a thread titled: "which members live in Cumbria?".
Hi
I dont live in Cumbria.....does that help
Ivor
Re: Members Map
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:36 pm
by ROG
Easy alternative -
start a new thread with all the counties of the UK listed and ask members to post a reply to which they are in
Then, every so often, add those members next to the relevant counties by editting the first post
Re: Members Map
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:44 pm
by Gareth
The trouble with that is two-fold. First is that some counties are quite large so participants may find they are closer to others across a county boundary than within it, and second that a text list is hard to visualise.
Re: Members Map
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:52 pm
by Moonwatcher
ROG wrote:Easy alternative -
start a new thread with all the counties of the UK listed and ask members to post a reply to which they are in
Then, every so often, add those members next to the relevant counties by editting the first post
If you had never travelled long distance e.g. London to Edinburgh and you were planning a journey (non motorway)
Would you
A. list all the major roads and towns that you would use
or
B. use a map
I rest my case
Re: Members Map
Posted:
Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:12 pm
by ROG
Moonwatcher wrote: If you had never travelled long distance e.g. London to Edinburgh and you were planning a journey (non motorway)
Would you
A. list all the major roads and towns that you would use
or
B. use a map
I rest my case
I would not be planning a journey but looking to see who was in my county or a nearby one and that is easy to do with what I suggested
I rest my case
Re: Members Map
Posted:
Thu Apr 21, 2011 8:24 am
by Gareth
Moonwatcher wrote:A. list all the major roads and towns that you would use
That would be the most useful method if you were driving solo and didn't have a satnav, although having an atlas as well would be good.
Re: Members Map
Posted:
Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:39 pm
by Moonwatcher
ROG wrote:Easy alternative -
start a new thread with all the counties of the UK listed and ask members to post a reply to which they are in
Then, every so often, add those members next to the relevant counties by editting the first post
Hi everyone, here is a list of the counties of the UK
Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
Cheshire
Cornwall
Cumbria
Derbyshire
Devon
Dorset
Durham
East Yorkshire
Essex
Gloucestershire
Hampshire
Herefordshire
Hertfordshire
Huntingdonshire
Kent
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Middlesex
Norfolk
North Yorkshire
Northamptonshire
Northumberland
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Rutland
Shropshire
Somerset
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Surrey
Sussex
Warwickshire
West Yorkshire
Wiltshire
Worcestershire
It has been suggested that I ask members to post a reply to which they are in, so what do you think, personally I think it's not the best suggestion on the planet but never mind
Re: Members Map
Posted:
Fri Apr 22, 2011 2:29 am
by kfae8959
And yet I note that you still haven't acted on the suggestion that you add a location to your own profile. Why not?
David
Re: Members Map
Posted:
Fri Apr 22, 2011 4:12 am
by Gareth
When I look at the list of registered users, 9 pages out of 24 have locations so it would be easiest for Moonwatcher to populate the list from
readily available information, including his or her own location.