FabSwingers.com forum: Geographical mistakes

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Are we the only ones who have spotted the mistake that seems to be happening more and more often of late !!!

We refer to thing's like towns that appear to have moved geographic position.

IE. York posted as in London.

Bolton in the south east.

Glasgow in London.

These are just a few of today's mistakes, the list is longer but We didn't want to bore you to much.

Is this a reflection of the state of our education system ( most mistakes are by under 25's) or just an easy way to spot the fake or time waster profiles

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You should open books instead of fly

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

It's fab itself that says Shrewsbury is in Wales

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Oxford is in the south east region. It would take me about 2.5hours to get there due to distance and Heathrow traffic. Hardy conducive to a meet. I wish Fab would be county based so one could choose counties to search for people in. The regions are almost pointless.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"It's fab itself that says Shrewsbury is in Wales "

In some case's it is site fault, but not in the case of York in London or Belfast being in Scotland, those are people who do not put the right location

Southampton is often listed as in the southeast when it is in the south/southwest,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

we use the postcode plus a distance away - works fine for us

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Oxford is in the south east region. It would take me about 2.5hours to get there due to distance and Heathrow traffic. Hardy conducive to a meet. I wish Fab would be county based so one could choose counties to search for people in. The regions are almost pointless. "

even doing post code search's throws up some rather interesting results too, Like if you live in a CO1 post code area and ask to search 50 miles it comes up with places in Kent,Surry.

These are in fact 50 miles away as the crow flies but for us road users the trip is more often 80 or 90 miles as there is a huge river between us that has to be crossed and means detouring as there is no direct route

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By *orwegian BlueMan
over a year ago

Iceland, but Aldi is closer..

Common fault on lots of sites.

Solution.. Google maps

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Variables.

One might live in York, but the phone app records one (with permission) in London.

One might also state that they live in, lets say, Swindon, but they list it as Oxfordshire. The town name you give isn't validated.

Be aware that, a lot of people on here are full of shit. A computer will only ever do what it is told.

At the end of the day, this site is mainly free. It's cheap, at its worst.

Not a problem for me.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

" we use the postcode plus a distance away - works fine for us"

we use it to, we are remarking about the profiles that state "York- Greater London" as there location beside their user name, We are not referring to how the site sorts search's, this is done by the profile creator not the site when building their profile

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By *o-jCouple
over a year ago

Outskirts of Notts

I have noticed that there are a lot of profiles that say east midlands places such as Grimsby and lowestoft .

Jo x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't imagine anyone that lives in York actually think they live in Greater London, I have always read it to be that they spend time in both locations so list both

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

There is a Luarge Kok Kissed nature reserve in Greenland, if memory serves

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By *he Queen of TartsWoman
Forum Mod
over a year ago

My Own Little World

" we use the postcode plus a distance away - works fine for us

Somerimes people can be in 2 locations, say London during the week for work then home to York at the weekends. There is no Fab facility to put 2 different areas so they work around it this way.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

" we use the postcode plus a distance away - works fine for us"

Right up until you live in North Devon. Cardiff, Swansea, South Wales all appear. It's as the crow files... but I ain't no crow!

To be fair, it's a free site, it's fun not stressful x

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"I have noticed that there are a lot of profiles that say east midlands places such as Grimsby and lowestoft .

Jo x"

Everyone knows that the East Midlands is only slightly smaller than Asia according to fab

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I have noticed that there are a lot of profiles that say east midlands places such as Grimsby and lowestoft .

Jo x"

Problem's caused by we say NE for Newcastle etc and, somewhat bizarrely, NW for places like Blackpool, ergo Grimsby would be east Midlands...okay, I'll fetch me coat

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