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Started by Claude , Apr 27 2011 10:51 AM

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Claude
Posted 27 April 2011 - 10:51 AM

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Hey all, this is obviously trivial issue but is there some reason that when I search for terms that are less than 4 characters i get the message "One or all of your search keywords were below 4 characters". This limit seems bizarre given that GIS, kml, shp might all be common search terms in this forum.

just my 2 cents.
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David Medeiros
Posted 27 April 2011 - 12:11 PM

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I run into this issue periodically (here and elsewhere). It is inconvenient given the number of TLAs we use in mapping.

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Michael Schmeling
Posted 27 April 2011 - 03:59 PM

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just my 2 cents.


Yes, adding my 2 cents to it B)
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Posted 28 April 2011 - 03:16 AM

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But you can search through google, which often gives even better search results...
http://www.google.se...e:cartotalk.com
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Gwenn Phillips
Posted 05 July 2011 - 10:44 PM

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But you can search through google, which often gives even better search results...
http://www.google.se...e:cartotalk.com


Thanks for the google tip :) Would still be nice to be able to search 3 letter strings in the forum though.
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