Read Thread: "Zero Miles" search
"Zero Miles" search
Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Jan 8, 2012 7:15pm
I think that something is funky with using the "0" in the mileage search for a town.
I have 42 unfound box listings in Leominster, MA. I see them all when I type in "Leominster MA" and leave the search at 25 miles. Of course there are other towns with boxes within that search.
Since I was just focusing on Leominster, I changed the search to "Leominster MA" and set the town to "0" so it would return all the boxes in the city limits. To my surprise, I only see 8 listings.
All say Leominster, but have no street address in the listing. All the boxes with street addresses do not show.
I tried it for Andover, MA and got the same type of results. If I put in zero for miles, I only get listings with no specified address...
I know it didn't used to be this way. Has something gone haywire?
I have 42 unfound box listings in Leominster, MA. I see them all when I type in "Leominster MA" and leave the search at 25 miles. Of course there are other towns with boxes within that search.
Since I was just focusing on Leominster, I changed the search to "Leominster MA" and set the town to "0" so it would return all the boxes in the city limits. To my surprise, I only see 8 listings.
All say Leominster, but have no street address in the listing. All the boxes with street addresses do not show.
I tried it for Andover, MA and got the same type of results. If I put in zero for miles, I only get listings with no specified address...
I know it didn't used to be this way. Has something gone haywire?
Re: "Zero Miles" search
Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Reply to: #668082 by The Vs
Jan 8, 2012 7:41pm
From what I understand the boxes that have no exact location are all listed at the center of the city. By searching for 0 miles you are also searching for 0 feet or 0 inches. So it should return a result of only boxes without an exact location. You may try to adjust your search by typing in 1 mile or 5 miles depending on the radius of the size of town.
Re: "Zero Miles" search
Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Reply to: #668082 by The Vs
Jan 8, 2012 8:33pm
Yeah, I changed that. Don't use "0 miles" for all boxes within a city anymore. On the Advanced Search page, you'll see a checkbox to "use exact locations." Click that instead to do the search you're trying to do. A "0 mile" search now returns exact location matches--in a much more strict sense of the word.
The "softer" exact search--what you're trying to do--has it's own checkbox on the Advanced Search page, though, so just use that instead and forget that the 0-mile hack ever existed. =) The 0-mile hack now will only return boxes "somewhere" in the city you specify--excluding boxes listed at specific locations within the city.
If that makes any sense....
-- Ryan
Re: "Zero Miles" search
Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Reply to: #668117 by Green Tortuga
Jan 8, 2012 8:57pm
I think I am still confused...
Re: "Zero Miles" search
Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Reply to: #668117 by Green Tortuga
Jan 8, 2012 9:02pm
Ok. I see how it works. But the zero miles still seems easier!
Re: "Zero Miles" search
Board: Letterboxing Help Desk
Reply to: #668128 by The Vs
Jan 8, 2012 11:16pm
It wasn't very intuitive for people, though. You have to know about the hack to take advantage of it. Now there's a nice little checkbox for people to click labeled with what the option does. =) User friendly!
-- Ryan