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UK Post Code find function

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By flyboy430 - 5/6/2014 2:38:04 PM

I decided to add the Post Code find feature to locate the nearest airfield to an address in northern England. To check it worked, I entered my own post code (RG45 6PT) which is for Crowthorne, close to Bracknell, Berkshire.

The list started like this:

Lasham, Charlgrove, Heathrow, Benson, Odiham, Northolt.

There was no mention of Blackbushe, Farnborough, Fairoaks or White Waltham all of which are closer than Charlgrove and in the case of Blackbushe and Farnborough, both are only a few miles by road.

This raises the obvious question of why these airfields were missing from the list but also is the list supposed to depict the closest airport first? Is so, Charlgrove should have been towards the end of the list not second.

Anyone else using this function had a similar result?

(Using Skydemon PC version 3.0.6.0)

Dan
By Tim Dawson - 5/6/2014 7:20:11 PM

Probably as you say, they simply dropped off the end because we limit the number shown to 10 (or similar).