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In reply to Pchelovod: Thank you for raising the issue of a map-based search. This usual way smartphones do this is by reading your exact GPS location and storing an approximation to it. We could do this, but I thought people might not like it due to privacy concerns i.e. your phone is transmitting your exact location over the Internet. Although it would be encrypted of course. Maybe people could voice their thoughts on this matter here.
Our main search page (not the Quick Search) allows you to search on city names. This won’t tell you if someone is in a neighbouring city. You could ask ChatGPT to list all the towns and cities in a 20km radius from your city. With this information you can perform a series of searches for each town and city. Five to ten individual searches won’t take that long and will give you a good approximation to what you want.
Our site subdivides countries into regions (states or provinces). In large countries such as the USA, Canada and Australia, a region based search won’t help much. Searching on regions (leaving the city name blank) is much more useful for smaller European countries. Some of them are divided up into lots of different regions. For example, Germany is divided up into the following regions.
Baden-Württemberg Region
Bayern
Brandenburg
Bremen
Hamburg
Hessen
Berlin
Mecklenburg-vorpommern
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Rheinland-Pfalz
Saarland
Sachsen
Sachsen-anhalt
Schleswig-Holstein
Thüringen
NiedersachsenIn English, Bayern is known as Bavaria. It is a good idea for people to enter their European city names in their native language rather than English when registering here. Otherwise city-based searches will fail if half the city names are in English and half or not. My Account (Settings) allows your location to be updated after registration.
Pchelovod
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I agree, allowing location access to the app is not desirable. I care a lot about privacy and tracking.
But if users could have the option to click on a map to specify their location when registering or updating their profile, and those locations could be displayed on a search map (for example anything within 100 km from a chosen point) that would make searches more useful and easier to perform. (The classified advertising site, Craigslist, in the US has a search feature roughly like this.)
I live in a small US state, so I need to search in 3 or 4 different states to find all users within a search radius of roughly 100 km. And then I get many who are too far away. It would be a nice to have this feature, but no doubt would cost money to add it. A tough decision with a limited budget.
Thank you for the site and for the app.
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In reply to Pchelovod: Thanks for the suggestion. It is a very good idea to give people the option to provide an approximate location by putting a pin on map.
flyingtiger
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Just seeing this. Happy to help. How’s it going?
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