How to find Mefites by city

July 1, 2008 7:48 PM

How to find Mefites in a specific location? I want to find all Mefites in Panama City, Panama. Is it possible to do this; if so, how? Someone suggested editing my profile and changing my location to the city I want to locate others in and then looking at nearby mefites but that didn't work.
posted by lometogo to MetaFilter-Related at 7:48 PM (16 comments total)

I was one of the people who suggested that. Can you explain why that didn't work? What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
posted by Phire at 7:51 PM on July 1, 2008

Just putting in the city name might not work outside of the US. Did you try your putting in the latitude and longitude instead? When I did it, western hemisphere longitudes needed to be negative, so watch out for that. Your lat would be roughly 9.0, long roughly -79.5 by my calculations.

sorry about the AskMe
posted by LionIndex at 7:56 PM on July 1, 2008

you set your lat/lon coordinates to austin, tx, not panama city. panama city's coordinates are 8.993, -71.520.

i just plugged those in though, and it said there were no other users nearby. so, you may be out of luck.
posted by sergeant sandwich at 7:57 PM on July 1, 2008

oops, make that 8.993, -79.520. sheesh
posted by sergeant sandwich at 7:58 PM on July 1, 2008

There's a Google Earth plugin that will allow you to see any MeFites located on any part of the globe.
posted by Effigy2000 at 8:12 PM on July 1, 2008

i'll be damned. i never knew any of that. i'm ... enlightened!

i think i better go lie down now.
posted by msconduct at 8:18 PM on July 1, 2008

metafilter.com/metafilter.kml

not linked cause don't let the robots get ahold of that.
posted by 31d1 at 8:38 PM on July 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

"I want to find all Mefites in Panama City, Panama. Is it possible to do this; if so, how? "

Reach down between your legs and ... ease the seat back.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:48 PM on July 1, 2008 [4 favorites]

not linked cause don't let the robots get ahold of that.

The robots already know.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:49 PM on July 1, 2008 [2 favorites]

Does this apply only to those who have supplied their lat/lon? F'rinstance, just supplying Tupelo, MS, without the lat/lon won't mark you on this special robot free map, will it?

^stavrosthewonderchicken: The robots already know.

**adjusts tinfoil hat** BETTER
posted by not_on_display at 10:06 PM on July 1, 2008

Reach down between your legs and ... ease the seat back.

So...there are six. But are they electric?
posted by kittyprecious at 5:35 AM on July 2, 2008

The Google Earth map is generated by users entering lat/long. They will not appear otherwise. The closest user is in Costa Rica. By inference: wogbat.
posted by tellurian at 6:42 AM on July 2, 2008

I had just changed the city; found when I entered lat/lon it returned results. Thanks to all!
posted by lometogo at 7:47 AM on July 2, 2008

when I entered lat/lon it returned results
I'm curious. What results did you get? You should get 'no other users nearby'.
posted by tellurian at 6:11 PM on July 2, 2008

You should get 'no other users nearby'
Okay, now I think about it - that's a result.
posted by tellurian at 7:40 AM on July 6, 2008

And you seem happy "Thanks to all!" So, live well.
Even though I may always wonder.
posted by tellurian at 7:45 AM on July 6, 2008