Thank you THS for including a distance button on the sort list.
It gives my saved searches new meaning. I can now see the sits I want to see quickly and ignore the ones that are 50 miles from the area I want to search.
Now all we have to do is educate the hosts to use a more accurate location instead of a close by large city.
Eg. Large old rectory in rolling countryside, nearest neighbour half mile away in Basingstoke?
Are you sure it’s the hosts not using a “more accurate location instead of a close by large city”? Because I’m pretty sure it might just be the map/location issue that’s embedded and used on the site which by default might not allow you to choose smaller towns and villages if they technically fit into a larger residential area (e.g. if you try searching ANY towns/villages around Cambridge, nothing will come up in the search bar – and again, I say search bar not the search results —, it all just falls under Cambridge).
I’m assuming that it works like google maps and the host types in their place of residence then chooses the most appropriate one. It’s very fustrating when the place on the headline is contradicted with their description or even naming the town or village they live in. I have no particular interest in sitting in that large town but I’m very interested in villages to the east of it. I’ve been ignoring the sits until I realised what was happening and now I have to troll through them all, just in case.
In the web interface, that is not true. Assuming this is about the UK I tested typing Chesterton or Newnham. And also, the map currently shows pins in Hardwick, Comberton, and Great Shelford.
Hosts cannot place a pin on exeactly their home but the net of available locations is quite fine-grained in England.