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Board: Country: United Kingdom
Feb 8, 2008 12:16am
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I was wondering if there is a place that the boxes outside the US are organized per location... that is, when I search for a box say in England, they ALL come up alphabetically rather than by town... how do I know which ones are where, besides opening them all?
Re: how to search
Board: Country: United Kingdom
Reply to: #184655 by JWalk
Feb 8, 2008 2:46am
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That's an issue that has come up quite a bit. Unfortunately, we're restricted by the way Ryan initially set up AQ in relation to UK boxes and how we enter them. From what I understand, he doesn't have any options of changing it up. I think it would be great if we could organize by county - just as you would search in a particular US state.
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Reply to: #184655 by JWalk
Feb 8, 2008 5:15am
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If you go to the "Advanced Search" page, and in the "Location" box put the town you're looking for, then a comma and "ENG" it seems to work. I don't know how comprehensive this is, but I've used it for London ("London, ENG"), Cambridge and Stafford successfully.

Hope that helps.

Desperate Dan
Re: how to search
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Reply to: #184678 by Desperate Dan
Feb 8, 2008 5:35am
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Well spotted DD,
Just done a search based on Pickering, Eng which produced most of the North Yorks
Moors Boxes.
Good to hear from you,
Tim
DDs
Re: how to search
Board: Country: United Kingdom
Reply to: #184678 by Desperate Dan
Feb 13, 2008 1:42am
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HI, Desperate Dan -

That's also what I do. Usually after I've searched for an area (say Thirsk, ENG), I then click on 'nearby boxes' when I have one open and it will show only the closest of boxes. So, for instance, if I did a search for London with a distance of 50 miles, I would get this:
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/results.html?gTypeId=2;gStatus=9;gCoord=51.500311,-0.00573;gRad=75;gLocation=London%2C+ENG%2C+UK;gTitle=London%2C+ENG%2C+UK
Whereas, I did this search for 100 miles around Ripon, ENG because I knew I'd be at a dog show that was going to have an early finish time and I got this:
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/results.html?gTypeId=2;gStatus=9;gCoord=54.115864,-1.558445;gRad=100;gLocation=Ripon%2C+ENG%2C+UK;gTitle=Ripon%2C+ENG%2C+UK
I also have a general ENG search that I use simply for the [map results] option so I can see all of the boxes visually on a map. The only limitation I've ever noticed that we have is the 'Trip Planner'. It seems that everytime I think that there is a limitation of the AQ interface, I find that the limitation is me!!! LOL Ryan seems to think of everything! So, maybe there is a Trip Planner option that I haven't yet discovered... Ryan??

Ukusa
Re: how to search
Board: Country: United Kingdom
Reply to: #184655 by JWalk
Feb 23, 2008 5:08pm
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Thank you for your responses! I havent been able to get on here recently, but that helps! (I am not in England anymore, but the next time I go, hopefully I will be able to pick up some boxes!)

JWalk