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Licht & Feuer wrote:
wisi wrote:Yes, that is the way it is ment, even the comments on the Page states:
www.eurobilltracker.com wrote:Enter the name of the city where you got the note
So do I but in exceptional cases like this an exception should be allowed - this bill will certainly not been entered in Thailand again but return to somewhere in €-Land, maybe Germany.
That's fine in cases like this, I'd say.

The crucial point for tracking is that the note is entered at a location where it has physically been. Each owner of a note should know for sure where he got the note, even if he's spent the note already. (NB. Our US counterpart Where's George insists that the bill must be in direct possession of the user when and where he enters it. Indeed, this is the only way to have absolute certainty.) Typically users don't know in advance where they're going to spend a certain banknote.

The disputed entry is a particularly good one because it gives both the location where the bill was received and where it was spent.
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There's also a place like Heusden in East Flanders, just like in Limburg.
So the dot on the map should be (much) more to the southwest.
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Can someone correct the country (FI -> NL) in my hit please?

Edit: OK, cheers for the fast work
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8925 is Leeuwarden, not Amsterdam
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Gebruiker : whabner
Lid sinds: 2005-11-14
bei buchholz i.d.n., Duitsland (21279)
Laatste biljet ingegeven : 2005-11-15 00:43:25
Aantal interessante hits : 0
Aantal ingegeven biljetten : 11

http://www.eurobilltracker.eu/index.php ... d=11763465

The townname is Appel if the postal code is ok.

http://www.plz-postleitzahl.de/land.nie ... sen/appel/
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Gebruiker : hup
Lid sinds: 2005-11-18
Trich, Nederland (6222)
Laatste biljet ingegeven : 2005-11-18 20:49:46
Aantal interessante hits : 0
Aantal ingegeven biljetten : 26

This town is Maastricht, Netherlands.

http://www.eurobilltracker.eu/index.php ... d=11858032
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Sorry for the bad mood I'm in already.

It is embarrassing that I have to inform an EBT forum moderator and translator twice in the same thread about how to edit bills. The procedure has changed in the meantime such that you can edit most of your mistakes, in particular the choice of a wrong country, yourself (if you really don't know see the F.A.Q.).

Again, sorry for the bad mood I'm in right now.
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1/I don't understand why, but i already have made the changes myself and it didn't work, the flag is still the flag of France, and what is incredible is that it worked for a 4th note !!! 8O
This is why I am posting here...
This is not the first time that I have problems using this tool whereas I made the changes carefully...

2/I thought i could post the wrong locations here...now, i will send each time a message to the contact-team, i thought it was easier for them to see it here.
And sorry, i forgot to read the answer of my other post :oops: :oops: :oops:
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As for 1/ - it is important to receive bug reports. If on several occasions something, which is supposed to work, doesn't work - there's probably a bug. The most direct way for submitting a bug report is contact@eurobilltracker. We have received only two reports on problems with the change form, and one of them is so unspecific that it is of no practical use. With more data, it is more likely to identify the exact problem.

As for 2/ - to avoid future misunderstands I petition to unstick and close this topic. The useful reports have always been a minority. As has been repeated and ignored on numerous occasions, reports about users selecting an inconsistent combination for their default location are both undesired and useless as the default location is intended as a service to save everybody's time of re-typing the same data. (It is now also used for several statistics. However, hardly any of the listed users stayed active over an extended period of time.) Mismatches among postal code and place name are frequent, far beyond what is listed here. We could spend weeks full-time with fixing those, but we'd rather use that time for site development, extensions, support, this forum, and real life. As long as the place is still clearly identifiable, such a mismatch isn't a problem either because our coordinate-database has been trained to cope with such issues.

Again, this post is due to my bad mood, caused by unreliability of several people and public transport services.
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Gauss wrote:to avoid future misunderstands I petition to unstick and close this topic.
I'm not even in a bad mood and I couldn't agree more. What a waste of time this is. One location may be fixed, but at the same time there will be ten more... As long as humans enter notes, there will be mistakes.
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I have to agree that the information in this topic is for 98% percent unsufficient to fix the wrong entries and just as Gauss already said it is a humongous task to fix every wrong placename IF we even have all the necessary data.

If you do have wrong data yourself, please send an email to the support team and it will be handled.

I can understand the reports about wrong data of others. I like a correct database just like all of you. But we can't change data just based on that.
The original user should send the complete serialnumber together with his username or the emailaddress with which he logs in on EBT to the Support Team and say what data he wants corrected.
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the location for this bill should just be "Zwijndrecht", the user is a bit too specific I think...
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