Yup--behind Nora.

I've done some more reading, and storing the locations as text is why the page is slow on loading. So there's that to be considered--swapping to latitude and longitude will speed things up, but be less user-friendly. It'll bring drag and drop back into play.

I found myself, but I wonder if you just put in the city & state you get the exact same spot on the map without any, which would explain why Theo isn't there but you can sort of see me (and why TomW isn't there, because they must have used slightly different wording on their location from mine, but probably the same one as each other).

It was really slow for me, but I figured that was just all of us on it at one time, I'll check later.

You can put in your street without a number for a little finer grain (or a cross street, even, for nearness with obfuscation).

Well, you can put any number of things in that location field, up to and including your zip code or latitude and longitude to varying precisions. If you have exactly the same position as someone else, I would only imagine it's first come first served, or last come first shown.

Feel free to experiment with positioning.

I'm going to see if I can convert the text entered on the profile page into latitude and longitude when it's saved, so that firing up the map page is faster. In the meanwhile, eh. It's not like we're taxing our system overly or anything--it's just a lot of back and forth to google.com. I'll trim the chatter one way or another.

Well, you can put any number of things in that location field, up to and including your zip code or latitude and longitude to varying precisions. If you have exactly the same position as someone else, I would only imagine it's first come first served, or last come first shown.

So I guess I should put something besides SF?

I put my city and zip code. I may add a street, since my street is only 3 blocks long, it'll be pretty accurate.

Being the only Buffista for 50 miles in any direction has some advantages. So does living in a tiny village. I didn't even include a street, and my arrow lands one house down from my old apartment.

So I guess I should put something besides SF?

Whatever makes you feel comfortable. You can go as high level as USA, although that'll confuse folks.

I had my zip code in there, but tested by rounding of my longitude and latitude and using those instead, and it's kinda aroung there. Anything you can search on in google maps, basically. It's exactly the same algorithm. I just need to optimise it so the algorithm runs as few times as possible.

eta: Vortex, you do realise this is all your fault, right?