We've introduced a beta version of 'Near Me' - a page that uses the IP address of the device you're using to gain your approximate location, and display the nearest place profiles and images to your current location.
This system will not work if you are accessing Our Town Story via mobile internet services, as IP addresses in this situation are not assigned geographically.
Obviously at this early stage, with relatively few images on the site, the image search may well draw a blank, but it should improve over time as more images are added.
Without driving all over the country, it's very hard to test how well this works, so we'd appreciate your feedback below, as to how accurate you find the system. The IP location database is not something we can improve, so if it's consistently wildly inaccurate, we may have to shelve the feature for the time being. If you could let us know roughly where you are, and where it thought you were, that would be very helpful.
You can find 'Near Me' at http://OurTownStory.co.uk/nearme - or from the 'Home' dropdown menu.
updated by @iamtimbo: 23 Apr 2015 18:10:38
This system will not work if you are accessing Our Town Story via mobile internet services, as IP addresses in this situation are not assigned geographically.
Obviously at this early stage, with relatively few images on the site, the image search may well draw a blank, but it should improve over time as more images are added.
Without driving all over the country, it's very hard to test how well this works, so we'd appreciate your feedback below, as to how accurate you find the system. The IP location database is not something we can improve, so if it's consistently wildly inaccurate, we may have to shelve the feature for the time being. If you could let us know roughly where you are, and where it thought you were, that would be very helpful.
You can find 'Near Me' at http://OurTownStory.co.uk/nearme - or from the 'Home' dropdown menu.
updated by @iamtimbo: 23 Apr 2015 18:10:38
