oasiscouple wrote:Nigel Goodwin wrote:
I can find it on map-based searches. How were you searching?
I see what you mean, now I can find it using the map. I was trying by typing Port Leucate in the box "Where do you want to go".
Yes, that might take a bit longer to implement a fuzzy search, but it is something I should be working on. Even the big boys have troubles with these kinds of searches, as you will see from comments on LMH. For example, are my own properties in Newquay, or Fistral Beach Newquay? Some sites have two distinct and mutually exclusive choices, if you search for 'Newquay' you won't find properties in 'Fistral Beach Newquay' and vice versa.
Google will return a hierarchy of locations if you give it lat/long. But I think even Google does not recognise the existence of Scotland and Wales.
By temperament I do like to get things right, but getting things right can take considerable effort and time. My opinion is that there should be a hierarchy of locations, and any search includes all locations within that branch of the hierarchy.
So 'Fistral Beach' is a sub location of 'Newquay', Newquay itself is a sublocation of North Cornwall, and North Cornwall is a sub location of Cornwall, so we then have:
Europe
--UK
----England
------South West England
---------Cornwall
------------North Cornwall
--------------Newquay
----------------Fistral Beach
You can then have a data driven user interface so people can do the searches they want with the flexibility they want.
Note that the number of levels in the hierarchy is not static, and will be country dependent. In USA it will be:
North America
--USA
----Trumpland
------Texas
--------Harris County (which is where I am currently)
I was sitting having breakfast in my hotel this morning, the news was on, I muttered loudly that Trump was a perverted narcisist, the guy next to me said he is voting Trump not because he likes him, but because he hates Clinton.
My guess is that no current listing sites do it correctly. I don't know where they get their staff from.