Members Location Profiles On CD

[Travis Hoffman]

My location is actually........right behind you! Look out!!!!

It makes sense to add more specific location information if all you provide is your city. It actually shows more respect to people who aren't from your area, your state, or even your country.

Back in the day, when we attended the first Canadian Regional in 2002, I was told by a friendly Canadian that, to be truly respectful, we should update our LED scrolling sign to read "Warren, OH USA" instead of just "Warren, OH". I thought that made sense, so I made the change.

In an international community such as this one, I think it's proper to follow a similar format when announcing location in your User Profile. I hadn't appended the "USA" to my CD profile location up til now, but I've made the change.

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

My location is actually........right behind you! Look out!!!!

That is very scary.

[dangerousdave]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

My location is actually........right behind you! Look out!!!!

Wow Travis, I almost turned around to look! I do see that you are from the state with the best amusement park in the world, Cedar Point, which my boys and I have visited about 8 times. Kings Island is not bad also.

[dangerousdave]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

I hadn't appended the "USA" to my CD profile location up til now, but I've made the change.

I have done the same, good idea. Dave

[Ken Leung]

How about when asking new members to enter their location, instead of just one field for "location", have two seperate field for "city" and "state" where the "state" only allow two letters?

We can have another for "country" as well.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

I wonder... will "Quad Cities, IA and IL USA" fit? I'll give it a try...


EDIT: Yes, yes it does. Happy Dave?

[Taylor]

While most FIRSTers would realize that Kokomo is, in fact, in central Indiana, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that the majority of the population thinks it's in the Caribbean (by Aruba, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahama, Key Largo, or Montego).

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by boiler

While most FIRSTers would realize that Kokomo is, in fact, in central Indiana, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that the majority of the population thinks it's in the Caribbean (by Aruba, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahama, Key Largo, or Montego).

No one listens to the Beach Boys any more. Now maybe if Disturbed did a cover.......

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

No one listens to the Beach Boys any more. Now maybe if Disturbed did a cover.......

NO MORE DISTURBED COVER SONGS!!!! AHH!!! Sorry about the caps... but if I hear "Land of Confusion" one more time on the radio, I'll bust a cap in my stereo.

[Schnabel]

Kokomo, Indiana
Making the change right now!

[artdutra04]

Here's a cool suggestion for Brandon CD47-Bot to add to the Chief Delphi todo list:

When viewing a thread or a user's profile, make the location a clickable link to Google Maps with that location. To do this would be really simple with PHP, as I did a similar thing for the "Connecticut FRC Teams" on the Links page of Team 228's website. All you need to do is a str_replace and convert the spaces into + signs, and append that onto http://maps.google.com/maps?q=

So now South Meriden, CT USA becomes South Meriden, CT USA. With this option, it becomes really easy to know exactly where places like Kokomo, IN USA really are.