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Old 08-01-2010, 11:07 PM
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mithrandir (Andrew)
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Originally Posted by Lester View Post
I may have missed something over the past few months, but notices that many users have a distance in kilometres that comes up at the top right corner of their posts.
If both you and the poster have the geographic location in their profile it works out the great circle distance.

Some people tell the truth about their location. You can put the co-ords in Google maps or Google earth and point straight at them.

Some like me tell the truth but restrict the accuracy. You can get withing a Km or so.

Others can be rather more "imaginative". A certain person who shall remain nameless says they are in Sydney, but the distance from here comes up as hundreds of Km, which is clearly bunk.
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