How to Find Steem Users Near You (with AskSteem)

Hello everyone,
I was recently asked if AskSteem could be used to find other steem users near you geographically such as in the same city, state, or country for the purposes of finding people to meet up with. So in this post, I'd like to outline the simple way to do just that.

<h1>How To <p dir="auto">We're going to use the following query template for our search:<br /> <code>profile.location:"Your Location Name"<br /> All you need to do is replace the "Your Location Name" text with the name of your city, state, or country. For example, I'm in the United States so I could try:<br /> <a href="https://www.asksteem.com/search?q=profile.location:%22United+States%22" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link"><code>profile.location:"United States"<br /> to find all of the users who live in the United States.<br /> <img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmchq8oX3ehfg3Jc9ejNcZDLSgpFYLHfpfW8XTAHrsBL6U/image.png" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmchq8oX3ehfg3Jc9ejNcZDLSgpFYLHfpfW8XTAHrsBL6U/image.png 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmchq8oX3ehfg3Jc9ejNcZDLSgpFYLHfpfW8XTAHrsBL6U/image.png 2x" /><br /> But let's say I wanted to narrow that down even more to my city. I happen to be living in Orlando so I'll search for users who live there.<br /> <a href="https://www.asksteem.com/search?q=profile.location:%22Orlando%22" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link"><code>profile.location:"Orlando"<br /> <img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmSqUjJdpSiyZ6xqRXbwtA92yNuozJr5LQd5P3sVVfACWV/image.png" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmSqUjJdpSiyZ6xqRXbwtA92yNuozJr5LQd5P3sVVfACWV/image.png 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmSqUjJdpSiyZ6xqRXbwtA92yNuozJr5LQd5P3sVVfACWV/image.png 2x" /><br /> As you can see there are about 64 steem users who say they are living in Orlando. <p dir="auto">If you live in a smaller city you may not be able to find others so try using more general terms like your country. <h1>Restrictions <p dir="auto">This method is not perfect because it relies on searching for the text that the user has manually entered. Right now this is the best that can be done because steemit does not save location data in a proper standardized format. <p dir="auto">Thanks for reading this guide and Search On!