STLbells Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment
+elyob Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 (edited) 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. Edited April 20, 2018 by elyob 1 Quote Link to comment
STLbells Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share Posted April 20, 2018 Yeah, I've recently learned that, too. But I never give up hope, because I don't want to be hopeless! Quote Link to comment
+T0SHEA Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 On 4/20/2018 at 9:51 AM, STLbells said: Yeah, I've recently learned that, too. But I never give up hope, because I don't want to be hopeless! I like that attitude - I, too, will never give up hope... ...I hope... Keith Quote Link to comment
+iconions Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 As waymarkers, we do not consider these as bugs or quirks, just merely as undocumented design features! 1 Quote Link to comment
+elyob Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 (edited) 22 hours ago, iconions said: As waymarkers, we do not consider these as bugs or quirks, just merely as undocumented design features! That's it. Edited April 23, 2018 by elyob Quote Link to comment
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