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Edit profile, set Preferred Units to metric.

Go to waymark search. Search for Waymarks near [My home], with a radius of 100km. Go to the final page of results. The search is showing waymarks up to 161km away, which suggests that under the covers it's really searching for 100 miles rather than 100km.

Fish Below The Ice:

Edit profile, set Preferred Units to metric. Go to waymark search. Search for Waymarks near [My home], with a radius of 100km. Go to the final page of results. The search is showing waymarks up to 161km away, which suggests that under the covers it's really searching for 100 miles rather than 100km.

That is correct.  The site still returns 100 miles of data, it just displays it in metric for us enlightened ones (snicker).  Why should we get less results just because they refuse to upgrade?

BQ

Is there anything in the pipeline to correct this? If I search for 10km I don't want 16km of WMs!

Master Mariner:

Is there anything in the pipeline to correct this? If I search for 10km I don't want 16km of WMs!

I think this should not be changed. I don't want less waymarks displayed just because I use a different unit. And I guess I speak for the majority.

BTW: There is another glitch in this list. The result is not within a circle but a square. I guess this is due to performance optimizations. So the waymarks in the corners have a larger distance than chosen, even in miles.

fi67:

Master Mariner:

Is there anything in the pipeline to correct this? If I search for 10km I don't want 16km of WMs!

I think this should not be changed. I don't want less waymarks displayed just because I use a different unit. And I guess I speak for the majority. BTW: There is another glitch in this list. The result is not within a circle but a square. I guess this is due to performance optimizations. So the waymarks in the corners have a larger distance than chosen, even in miles.

I guess that you could always use a higher distance value!!! Preferably, I would like to be able to put in my search distance rather than a pick a pre-defined one. Is there a way of doing that as I have not come across it if there is!

I had not realised that it did a square search as opposed to a circular one I guess that it is easier to filter WMs that way.

Cheers.

When you do a distance search and then have a look at the URL you see a long address with a lot of parameters.

There's a part you can tweak. Look for:

&r=xxx&

where xxx is a number. Just replace the given number with the desired one (always in miles) and hit return. Here you are!

Master Mariner:

Is there anything in the pipeline to correct this? If I search for 10km I don't want 16km of WMs!

Then search for 6.2miles ;-)

fi67:

When you do a distance search and then have a look at the URL you see a long address with a lot of parameters. There's a part you can tweak. Look for: &r=xxx& where xxx is a number. Just replace the given number with the desired one (always in miles) and hit return. Here you are!

Now that is a very useful bit of advice! Thanks fi67.

Edited to add: Just tried that and, apart from decimal values not seeming to work, it works a treat and I can save the URLs for later use. I won't say I want to have your children but there is a drink waiting for you in London!! Thanks again.

I believe that Burma is one of the other nations who hew to the imperial system, as does Liberia and the US of A. I believe that NASA are a little confused, from time to time, as to the relationship between the two systems.

Ianatlarge:

I believe that Burma is one of the other nations who hew to the imperial system, as does Liberia and the US of A. I believe that NASA are a little confused, from time to time, as to the relationship between the two systems.

So, where can you still get a pint of beer?

The simplest solution is to do your own conversion before doing the query.  Not nice, but you will get the results you want.  And, foget about squaring the circle. 

silverquill:

Ianatlarge:

I believe that Burma is one of the other nations who hew to the imperial system, as does Liberia and the US of A. I believe that NASA are a little confused, from time to time, as to the relationship between the two systems.

So, where can you still get a pint of beer?

The simplest solution is to do your own conversion before doing the query.  Not nice, but you will get the results you want.  And, foget about squaring the circle. 

Could you expand a bit on "The simplest solution is to do your own conversion before doing the query.  Not nice, but you will get the results you want." as I am not sure what you mean. I have tried fi67's solution and using a value of "6" gives me about 9.6km which is closer to what I am looking for. The url does not seem to like decimal values so "6.2" did not work.

So are you saying convert 10km to miles and then use that as fi67 suggested or is there another way?

silverquill:

Ianatlarge:

I believe that Burma is one of the other nations who hew to the imperial system, as does Liberia and the US of A. I believe that NASA are a little confused, from time to time, as to the relationship between the two systems.

So, where can you still get a pint of beer?

The simplest solution is to do your own conversion before doing the query.  Not nice, but you will get the results you want.  And, foget about squaring the circle. 

The uk is in an odd state of 'officially we are metric' but half of everything is imperial. Pint of Beer, Ounce of butter etc.... But 2ltrs of Cola.

Master Mariner:

silverquill:

Ianatlarge:

I believe that Burma is one of the other nations who hew to the imperial system, as does Liberia and the US of A. I believe that NASA are a little confused, from time to time, as to the relationship between the two systems.

So, where can you still get a pint of beer?

The simplest solution is to do your own conversion before doing the query.  Not nice, but you will get the results you want.  And, foget about squaring the circle. 

Could you expand a bit on "The simplest solution is to do your own conversion before doing the query.  Not nice, but you will get the results you want." as I am not sure what you mean. I have tried fi67's solution and using a value of "6" gives me about 9.6km which is closer to what I am looking for. The url does not seem to like decimal values so "6.2" did not work.

So are you saying convert 10km to miles and then use that as fi67 suggested or is there another way?

Yes, that is what I mean.  Enter the closest mile figure that equals the kilometers that you want.  What degree of accuracy do you really need?   And, do you really need a circle rather than a square? 

 It would be nice if the system would accept metric, so this is a work-around, but it is the best that can be done.  Add it to the long feature request list.  And do

silverquill:

Master Mariner:

silverquill:

Ianatlarge:

I believe that Burma is one of the other nations who hew to the imperial system, as does Liberia and the US of A. I believe that NASA are a little confused, from time to time, as to the relationship between the two systems.

So, where can you still get a pint of beer?

The simplest solution is to do your own conversion before doing the query.  Not nice, but you will get the results you want.  And, foget about squaring the circle. 

Could you expand a bit on "The simplest solution is to do your own conversion before doing the query.  Not nice, but you will get the results you want." as I am not sure what you mean. I have tried fi67's solution and using a value of "6" gives me about 9.6km which is closer to what I am looking for. The url does not seem to like decimal values so "6.2" did not work.

So are you saying convert 10km to miles and then use that as fi67 suggested or is there another way?

Yes, that is what I mean.  Enter the closest mile figure that equals the kilometers that you want.  What degree of accuracy do you really need?   And, do you really need a circle rather than a square? 

 It would be nice if the system would accept metric, so this is a work-around, but it is the best that can be done.  Add it to the long feature request list.  And do

This solution works well for me and I am pleased that it was suggested. The accuracy thing is not critical it is just that the difference between 10km and 10 miles can mean an additional 200WMs many of which are in the suburbs of London that I rarely visit. I am not bothered whether a circle or a square is used - someone just mentioned that as an aside. If I had a preference then it would be for a square so that I could then create "building blocks" of areas that I am interested in rather than the Venn diagram approach that circles produce.

Thanks.

The other option you have is don't worry about the search radius at all and just make sure that the list is sorted by closest instead of alphabetical or by date then all you do is go to the the pages that within whatever radius you want. 

As I have said earlier, there are a number of Waymarking metrics (I do enjoy using that word in this fashion), that could be improved. The adoption of the metric system is the first. A dd/mm/yy date system is the second.

Of course, the ultimate, that linguistic barbarism which flies in the face of two millennia of European tradition, is the use of 'forums', rather than 'fora', to describe these fora.

Ianatlarge:

... A dd/mm/yy date system is the second.

Seconded! :-D