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Author: tom[at]compton.nu [Added to the original trac issue at 11.03pm, Saturday, 4th July 2009]
Just saying "less than 1km" would have been good enough and a lot simpler. I doubt most positions are accurate enough to make reporting metres mean very much.
Author: StefanB [Added to the original trac issue at 6.49am, Sunday, 5th July 2009]
Distance also in meters instead of only kilometers probably encourages better precision.
It's also true that it could be rounded a bit for larger numbers.
Eg, if someone is 632m away it is shown as "630m" (or even 650m), but if a neighbor is 12m away then it is shown as "12m"
Or trying to generalize it a bit, users are probably only interested in 2 most significant digits, regardless of the unit (1352km -> 1400km, 114 km->110km, 7km->7km, 821m->820m, 35m->35m).
Author: smsm1 [Added to the original trac issue at 10.20am, Sunday, 5th July 2009]
A lot of people intentionally use their local park or similar as their home location to make it ambigous, thus this extra code is a waste of time in the real world.
Author: avarab[at]gmail.com [Added to the original trac issue at 11.23am, Sunday, 5th July 2009]
Replying to [comment:4 smsm1]:
A lot of people intentionally use their local park or similar as their home location to make it ambigous, thus this extra code is a waste of time in the real world.
As long as some subset of the users set their home location inaccurately reporting on it with >1km precision is a waste of time?
There's another subset of users who do set their location accurately, and semi-accurate distances on the nearby mappers map are also useful for seeing how far these markers being displayed are from you.
Reporter: avarab[at]gmail.com
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 2.59am, Saturday, 4th July 2009]
The website will just show a friend as "0km" away when said friend is just a few hundred meters away (presumably <0.5>).
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