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City and State (Read 368 times)

Kenotic Runner


    I travel much on business and run in lots of different places.  I've probably run in 15 or so states and 5 or so countries in the last few years.

     

    I went to export my log to look at it.

     

    Oddly, it appeared that courses that I've entered recently don't have the city and state but older courses do.

     

    Any idea why that might be?

    eric :)


      Kenotic Runner,

      The primary need for the city and state fields is for searching of maps in a given area.  I'm phasing out those fields in favor of storing the locations as latitude/longitude values.  Searching by city/state names is not exact at best.  Often, they're entered incorrectly and thus are meaningless.  It is more accurate to derive the location from the map itself.  I didn't get rid of the underlying code that handles the obsolete fields because I ddn't want to introduce new bugs.

       

      eric :-)

      Kenotic Runner


        Thanks.  I had been using the city and state data to sum things up by state and by city then just for fun's sake to see how much I run where.

         

        I run more outside my home state than in my home state due to travels.