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by **Moonwatcher** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:11 pm

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.

by **devonutopia** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 6:36 pm

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....

by **Moonwatcher** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 6:36 am

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

by **MrToad** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 4:12 pm

Best place to start would be to add a location to your profile. That way, anyone reading your posts knows where you are.

by **Moonwatcher** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 12:15 pm

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,

by **MrToad** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 12:35 pm

You could always start a thread titled: "which members live in Cumbria?".

by **IVORTHE DRIVER** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:16 pm

MrToad wrote:You could always start a thread titled: "which members live in Cumbria?".

Hi

I dont live in Cumbria.....does that help

Ivor

by **ROG** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:36 pm

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

:idea:

by **Gareth** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:44 pm

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.

by **Moonwatcher** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:52 pm

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 :roll:

by **ROG** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:12 pm

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

by **Gareth** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 8:24 am

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.

by **Moonwatcher** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:39 pm

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 :roll:

by **kfae8959** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 2:29 am

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

by **Gareth** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 4:12 am

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.

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