+Whittling Fisher Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I was searching for caches for a trip we were planning today. I typed in "Charlotte, NC" in the search box on the home page of geocaching.com, and it takes you to some place in the south Pacific near Australia. I also tried opening the geocaching.com maps, and typed "Charlotte, NC" into the search box on those, and the same thing happened. If I open up MapQuest, and type the same thing in, it shows North Carolina. I'm guessing it is a geocaching.com thing. Haven't had any other problems like this, only Charlotte. Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I typed Charlotte, North Carolina and get Charlotte, North Carolina caches for the search results, both on the Home Page and under Seek a Cache. Quote Link to comment
+Whittling Fisher Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 Must just be the NC abbreviation when combined with Charlotte. Weird thing is that other cities I've searched for in North Carolina using the NC abbreviation work fine (Ashville, Raleigh, etc). Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I am not surprised. Sometimes search functions are SO picky! Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I typed in "Charlotte, NC" in the search box on the home page of geocaching.com, and it takes you to some place in the south Pacific near Australia. That "some place" is New Caledonia, which also has the abbreviation "NC". The coordinates put you smack in the middle of the island. It must be mistakenly identifying the "NC" as a country code rather than a state code. Others have posted on here having issues with the search over the last couple of months. Groundspeak changed the address-search provider a little while back, and apparently it isn't very good. Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 That "some place" is New Caledonia, which also has the abbreviation "NC". The coordinates put you smack in the middle of the island. It must be mistakenly identifying the "NC" as a country code rather than a state code. I was just about to figure out what the NC stood for in the search results. I knew it had to match to something! Quote Link to comment
+Whittling Fisher Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 Well, now I know that there are 6 caches near Charlotte, New Caledonia, if I ever get over that way Quote Link to comment
+scrapfam Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 While running a query of Champaign, IL, it shows listings for Ohio. If I search for Champaign, Illinois, it will show up, but now I have a block of listings for Ohio that I don't need. Quote Link to comment
Moun10Bike Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Merging duplicate threads. Quote Link to comment
Moun10Bike Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 The switch from Google also meant a switch from Google's geocoding service. The replacement is, as you are seeing, not as robust. Your best bet is to remove all ambiguities on searches, such as appending zip code, country, etc. Quote Link to comment
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