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Peculiar quirk in search on Zipcode


STLbells

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If you enter a 9-digit Zipcode as the search parameter, hoping to get results centered on your own neighborhood (for example), the search will actually operate relative to the center point of the 5-digit Zipcode.  (I've no idea where it gets that lat/lon.)  The quirk is that instead of telling you what it did, the results list claims to be centered on the 9-digit Zipcode that you supplied.  (Example: "Search Criteria: All Waymarks Within 10 mile(s) of 63122-nnnn" is actually centered on a point in 63122 that is more than a mile northeast of what I expected.)  This isn't a big deal, but it is misleading.

Yes, I'm picky.  But as a systems analyst/programmer for decades, I know that being picky is what makes the difference between really good software and barely acceptable software.

 

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Here at Waymarking, in recent years we have learned to be satisfied with software that is working at all, even if barely working.  The main efforts of the systems analyst/programmer are given to geocaching, not to Waymarking.  Most of the time, there are no resources for any fix here on the Waymarking site.

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