Members' Location Map - A Guide

A Map of Member Locations!

Firstly - Inclusion is totally optional!

Secondly - Accuracy. Please be sensibly accurate. Do not enter your location at the street level, nor at the County or large City/Town level. The reason for the former is obvious, and the latter would end up with pins stacked one on top of the other and the whole concept fails. So, Wembley, rather than London, or Greater London, Heaton rather than Bolton, etc.

Thirdly - UK locations only! The map zooms out to include all locations, and we are a UK club. So, if any of you’re lucky enough to live further afield … please resist!

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The How To bit.

  1. Go to the Members Location Map and zoom right in on your location to check it isn’t already “occupied”. (The map only shows 1 pin if two people use the same Location.) If so (and since locations aren’t supposed to be mega accurate) make a note of an unoccupied suburb/village nearby that you can use.

  2. Go to Preferences > Profile (or click on this Link to your profile.) and you’ll see a “Your Location (UK Only)” box.
    To get to Preferences, click on your avatar and select the cog icon.


  3. As you enter in your location name, the box will offer you possible choices. You must select the one you want, and don’t forget to click Save at the bottom of the Profile page!

  4. To see the map, either click on the link at the top of this post, or click on the hamburger icon at the top-right of any page in the forum and select “Users”…


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    … and then, on the User List page, select “Users Map”.

    This will give you the map of all members that have entered their location.
    (50 people on the map as of 21/09/18)

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Not sure if its a bug but I tried putting in my home location on the map the other day. The pop up menu wouldn’t recognise my postcode and came up with random nearby addresses so in the end I settled on someone elses address half a mile away.

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Can you check : Members' Location Map - A Guide : and any problems post the issue in that thread.

It looks like you’ve added yourself OK?

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… very close to my first school. :+1:

Not quite where I live though. :joy:

You can edit the location. :+1:

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Moved these posts over to this thread. :+1:

I am having trouble putting myself on the members map, tried searching the questions and tried different suggestions, but with no luck.

Thank you for any help

Moved your post to this thread - and instructions are in the first post.

I have tried everything, post code, place name, area, nothing seems to work

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OK - just checked - I can confirm there is an “issue”.

We’ll see what we can do and get back to you.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. :+1:

How strange - I’ve just tried again and it seems to be working OK for post code - in capitals, not lower case … but not for town name …

We’ll check this some more, but perhaps the post code will get you on the map in the mean time?

Tried the post code, CO1 comes up for Colchester but not CO14 for Walton on the naze

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OK - something is strange - we’ll look closer and let you know. :+1: