Questions tagged [location]
For questions about the Location field in the user profile, careers/jobs and/or in the User table (SEDE)
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How can I get a list of all of my profiles?
Changing my profile's location and clicking "Save and copy changes to all public communities" does not copy my location to all public communities. It only updates the current community. ...
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Why doesn't "Save and copy changes to all public communities" save the location field? [duplicate]
How do I change the location listed on my profile on every Stack Exchange site?
If I edit the location on one profile and click "Save and copy changes to all public communities", it only ...
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"Save and copy changes to all public communities" only updates the location on the current site [duplicate]
When I try to update my location:
and save changes for all communities:
The location is saved only on the current site. Is this a bug?
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Change only 'Location' in my profile and apply to all communities while not changing 'About me' section
I want to change the "Location" in my profile for all my Stack Exchange community sites, but I do not want to change the 'About me' section on each site.
If I choose 'Save change just for ...
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Long location is unnecessarily truncated on user's profile page
Really long locations are truncated on users' profile pages. As here, for example:
Instead of the full location, it's cut off and the last few characters are replaced by an ellipsis. On the other ...
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How do I get the highest posters for a certain tag in a specific country?
I would like to get the user IDs, user names, the number of posts, and the total score for a certain tag for each user in a specific country (sorted in descending order by score).
For example, in the ...
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Up-vote frequency per capita ordered by country
As a social experiment, I'm curious to know if users in certain countries up-vote more than others. Maybe the answers help users in some regions more than others, or maybe users in those regions are ...
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Is it possible to change country location? [duplicate]
I'm soon moving to a different country and am wondering if it is possible to change the country details in Stack Exchange, if so, how? The option doesn't seem to appear on my profile
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Why do Stack Exchange sites occasionally request my device location?
I received the following prompt when visiting Math Stack Exchange following a link from Google:
The exact URL in my address bar was:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/606375/prove-that-every-...
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Location auto fill showing old name of a country
When editing my profile and changing the location field, I have accidentally bumped into "Swaziland" still being listed as a country - although the official name as far as I can recall has been ...
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Location isn't copied to other sites when using "Save and copy changes to all public communities"
On Stack Overflow en español, I changed the location listed in my profile to "Ukhta, Russia":
Then, I pressed the "Save and copy changes to all public communities" button.
Now, on ...
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Can't change location in profile
I just went to [Edit Profile & Settings] and by location this is what I saw:
And if I hover over it or try to click, I get a red 'no' sign:
After reloading the page, it loads properly for a ...
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Is it okay to use Emojis in your user profile's location field?
Is it permissible to use Emojis in the field for your location like I do now, or is this not? If it is not permissible, should we have an error message to prevent this?
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Give profile location data a hyperlink to open a map
On the right-hand side of the "Profile" tab of the user profile page is the user's location data (if any), with a "map pin" icon. But it is not an active hyperlink.
Can we make the location data a ...
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Adding separate column COUNTRY in SE database
Well, there are many contracts or recruiters, who search for candidates by location. StackExchange is of course, one of the good source for finding people, and many people might need to find users by ...
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Jobs search seems to be ignoring distance [closed]
Yesterday I noticed that almost all of the jobs in my area disappeared from the usual Jobs search I do. Digging in further, I found that it is completely ignoring the "Distance" field in the search ...
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Is the Stack Exchange Network blocked in China?
I'm going to China soon, so I want to know whether the Stack Exchange Network is being blocked in China.
A lot of useful and great websites are blocked in China, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, ...
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Careers: more granular options for distance
When searching for job listings on Stack Overflow Careers, the minimum distance option is 20 miles. This is too far to really do anything to limit the search in London (UK).
It would be nice if the ...
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Couldn't sign up on Careers.stackoverflow with my location
I live in Hong Kong, which is a city on its own. Ideally, just "Hong Kong" should work, since it is both a city and a Special Administrative Region under China.
Nonetheless, it didn't let me sign ...
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Changing location to "worldwide"
Our current Careers Stack Overflow location says Criteo Europe but I would like to make it "wordwide" as we do operate from the US, Asia, and Europe. This is to give all our visitors an impression of ...
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Can't list a job for Hong Kong because of location handler [closed]
Our address is Unit 2206, 22/F, Wu Chung House, No. 213 Queen’s Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong, China HK SAR. But service can't parse it and the best option it provides is that:
But with this address I can'...
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Weston-super-Mare - incorrect case
Was trying to change my address on Stack Overflow to 'Weston-super-Mare' (UK) and was prompted to use 'Weston-Super-Mare' (note the incorrect case for 'super')
Can this be changed in the list of ...
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More job results behind proxy in England
I noticed it several times that there are more results for certain searches on careers when I do the search from behind a proxy (England) than from home (Hungary)
Eg I searched python + remote only ...
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Unable to find my name in Users by Country query
I'm just finding my name in the below query which sent by my friend :)
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/53058/top-users-by-country
I just entered India.
However surprisingly my name ...
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How many users does SO get from different countries? [duplicate]
Is there a breakdown of SO user distribution? I would like to know how many users SO gets from different countries. This query is not supported in the JSON API unfortunately.
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Finding specific users by their location and a tag score
I want to see who has the highest score in a specific tag (for example c#) in my country.
Is there any query or script for that?
I've found this query, but it doesn't work. Can any one take a look at ...
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Location Context changes country between Jobs and Company Pages
Just noticed this on the UK site.
If I go to http://careers.stackoverflow.com/uk/jobs/location/london, I see jobs for London, UK.
If I click the Company Pages tab...
my location context has been ...
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Two locations suggestion in Profile
It would be good if the profile allowed both Current Location and then Origin. I don't want to be mistaken coming from another country nor I don't want also to mislead someone of my current location ...
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"York" is not in (or anywhere near) Camden, London
No matter how many times I try to update my "Mailing Address" field on my careers.SO profile to my address in "York", complete with my postcode (in York!), upon pressing save it automagically updates ...
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can I set my location for careers advert
The careers advert in the sidebar, you know the one - more jobs near (your location)
I understand that it is detecting my location somehow, however it seems to think I'm based in London when I'm in ...
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Location is automatically updated with reverse look-up, which is wrong
When I enter Trstená, Slovakia into the Location box, it's updated to Trsztena (which is Hungarian name for the town, but it's not used here!). Please make it possible to override the automatic ...
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Careers adverts: location not accurate
On the Careers front page, after the featured jobs ads, there is a section jobs near [your location], with a further link to More [your location] jobs.
For me, the location it's using is waaaay off ...
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Can't choose a country as a location
While updating my careers profile I've noticed that I can't enter country names anymore as locations where I'm willing to relocate to. The problem is that if I'm willing to relocate o a different ...
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Obsolete country name on Careers
The Careers site has "Serbia and Montenegro" instead of separate entries for "Serbia" and "Montenegro".
Serbia and Montenegro has been broken up since 2006. Since then, Serbia and Montenegro are ...
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Careers Relocate to X thinks London is too vague (and displays badly) [closed]
In my employer search options I want to state that I am willing to relocate to London, but apparently that's not specific enough:
Sorry, we need a more specific location than 'London, United ...
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Wrong Country and Province
I've tried to change it a few times, but my profile keeps defaults to IN, United States. It doesn't save the postal code and doesn't seem to want to accept NL, Canada.
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Reputation Distribution by Location
Is there a way to find out the users with the highest reputation, in a given location? For example, I want to know who is the highest-ranking user in Argentina. It'd be interesting to find out the ...
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Careers 2.0 Bug: City of O'Fallon, Illinois Becomes Tjele, Denmark [closed]
When I enter the city of O'Fallon IL (US) as my location, it shows up as Tjele, Denmark in my profile.
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Careers - can you add UK counties?
When adding a careers advert can you add UK counties?
"Berkshire, UK" would yield better results than just "Reading, UK".
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ability to insist on specific "willing to relocate to"
When doing an employer search for people in my area, if I have the box checked to include people who are willing to relocate to my area, I get lots of people who are willing to relocate, apparently, ...
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Looking for users in my region [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to find Stack Overflow users based on an area?
I would like to meet up with other Stackoverflow enthusiasts in my region, Boulder CO. I see posts from 2009 ...
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The Netherlands Antilles do not exist anymore
Today I noticed to my astonishment that my location was changed from Willemstad, Curaçao to Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles without any intervention. I've changed it back on SO, but I've kept it as ...
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Do I have to change my location in every profile?
I see that the locations were standardized (Location in profile was changed without edit or knowing). Mine is another where the default is wrong, although I am willing to use the suggested option. ...
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Can we have multiple locations?
I have two legal residences. One in the US (Baltimore) and one in The Philippines (Mandaluyong City). It's conceivable that I may start spending 1/3 of the year in Singapore as well.
I understand the ...
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Under what circumstances could someone access my account? [duplicate]
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Why does my location in stackoverflow profile change?
I'm not to knowledgeable when it comes to OpenID, but I was under the impression it is reliable and secure. Now today I ...
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Where is the documentation for the correct format of the user profile's location field?
According to When did I move to Andøy, Norway? and Why does my location in stackoverflow profile change?, there is now an effort to standardize on a canonical format for the location field in a user's ...
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Location in profile changed [duplicate]
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Why does my location in stackoverflow profile change?
A screenshot of my profile both on meta and on the main site – in fact, apparently on any site:
Now, I’m absolutely, ...
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Location in profile was changed without edit or knowing
The location on my profile page it has changed from NRW to North Rhine-Westphalia.
However, I did not edit that value or field myself. Did someone else change it?
Why did it change?
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When did I move to Andøy, Norway? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why does my location in stackoverflow profile change?
If you currently check my profile, it says my location is "Andøy, Norway".
I'm sure Andøy, Norway is a lovely place (...
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Cannot add location/email to careers
I cannot seem to add my location or email. This is a copy of the log from chrome. I've removed my email address. Hopefully this should be of some use.
Cheers
Tony
Request URL:http://careers....
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