The Not
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So my fiance and I are using theknot.com to help plan our wedding. Last night we started using their Guest List Manager to, uh, manage our guest list. The Guest List Manager has many features, including the ability to record a mailing address for each guest, which is great for reminding us which people we still need addresses for.
The website has a really cool auto-complete feature. For example, if Uncle John lives on 123 Main St in Richmond, VA, just start typing "123 Mai" and let Google do the rest:
Pretty cool, huh? Except one problem: it doesn't auto-complete the ZIP code. Which makes this pretty much useless for keeping all of our mailing addresses in one place.
At least we noticed this fairly early, and we were able to go back and manually add the ZIP codes. It would have sucked to find that out the day we needed to send out invitations...
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@NedFodder If only Google's address data included ZIP codes... oh wait, it does. And I know from experience it's a piece of piss to extract. So were they thinking? Assuming they were actually thinking...
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@RaceProUK said in The Not:
oh wait, it does
Correct. We discovered that if we let it fill the text box, put the cursor between the state and country, and type the first digit of the ZIP code, it does auto-complete the rest of the ZIP code. That's a lot of work for something that could have been automatic.
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@NedFodder You'll find the interface sucks across multiple areas, but the ability to keep everything in one place cross-referenced is crucial to wedding planning. I went through that headache a few years back.
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@NedFodder They're using the autocomplete from the Maps, I bet, which don't include ZIP codes because nobody uses ZIP codes for driving directions.
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@blakeyrat So why does it auto-complete the country?
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@NedFodder Because people do use the country for driving directions. If I want to drive to Vancouver, I need to know whether it's the one in Canada or the United States. Which are about equidistant from me.
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@blakeyrat said in The Not:
nobody uses ZIP codes for driving directions
I use postcodes all the time when getting directions; it's extremely useful when you have 18 billion roads in the country with the same name
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And Jellypotatoes. I was reading the post, including the screenshot. Scrolled down to read the first reply and KABOOMFUCKER I'm suddenly reading the third reply. Because the image had unloaded or something. No screenshot in OP anymore.
Filed under: Red Boob
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Hmm, not seeing any country data on Google Maps here...
...although the auto-complete list is the same.
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@NedFodder Ok well I guess all my ideas are wrong and stupid moron dumbshit as usual. You sure showed me.
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@RaceProUK said in The Not:
18 billion roads in the country with the same name
They're not all called High Street. Allegedly…
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@dkf Just most of them!
Filed under: I know a bunch of High Streets in my county alone.... Let alone the state...
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@blakeyrat said in The Not:
If I want to drive to Vancouver, I need to know whether it's the one in Canada or the United States.
Same for me if I want to drive to Melbourne. Driving to Florida from here requires scuba gear.
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They're not all called High Street
No, about 30% are called London Road
AIUI, ZIP codes aren't as granular as UK postcodes. A postcode and house number/name is generally all you need to locate a UK address; the rest just makes it easier for the postman. In the US, a ZIP can cover quite a large area so it's less useful
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AIUI, ZIP codes aren't as granular as UK postcodes. A postcode and house number/name is generally all you need to locate a UK address; the rest just makes it easier for the postman. In the US, a ZIP can cover quite a large area so it's less useful
They're similar to the ZIP+4 codes; usual US ZIP codes are approximately like postal districts (e.g., I'm currently in M13, i.e., the thirteenth postal district of Manchester).