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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 5052291" data-attributes="member: 41321">In my opinion, this system must give a way to search by distance.  I believe the best way to do this is for the system to ultimately compare latitude and longitude of each user, but that lat and long doesn't need to be inputted by the user, and it doesn't need to be super accurate.  I don't really care if somebody is 15 miles away from me or 17, especially since I know the distance is "as the crow flies" and my car's mileage will probably show something different should I try to drive from one point to the other.Ideally people would be able to enter in their location as fine or as coarse as they like.  If the user inputs a broad area (like, the state of Texas) then that user's lat and long should be somewhere in the center of Texas.  It's not very accurate, but the user should probably expect this if they're inputting such a broad area.  However, if they were to input Dallas, TX then their distances will be much more accurate.  If they inputted their full address it would be the most accurate, but I'm not sure how fine you want to let people specify their location.  I would think you'd actually want to discourage this sort of thing if the system isn't secure.As far as how this would be implemented, I don't know.  There may already be services out there you can use that'll take a location in the form of text (like "Dallas, TX, USA") and return a lat and long.Other features I'd love:* Specify whether I'm looking to DM or play (or both)* Specify what types of games I like to play, and maybe even a ranking of each (so if you like some games more than others you can show that)* Search by distance and * Being able to create a "game" and post vacancies, and say information about that game</blockquote>

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