Recently active questions in Brightkite tagged with location

If I send in a query for businesses (by name) near GPS coordinates I get an error. Perhaps this could just balloon into a features like "Check me into the SuperAmerica nearest to these coordinates" but for now I'd settle for a search. I know I can do a search like "SuperAmerica in Eagan, MN" but that doesn't always get me the nearest.

I can't check in by SMS using the international number, I live in Chile using Entel PCS carrier.

It would make sense to be able to search for people who are often nearby where I am - i.e. other users in my hometown/city (in my case, Anchorage, Alaska).

People obviously shouldn't show up if they're marked as private, but for those who don't mind, like myself, it'd be nice to be able to hook up through brightkite.com (-:

For example, i was at a cafe and when i typed in the address it said it could not be found. I would like to see functionality that allows users to add businesses based on address.

Additionally, I entered in an address to check in to and BK gave me the wrong business name. How can I correct this? Also, where are you pulling your address data from?

Thanks!

the ability to edit the location on posts and photos would be awesome. most of my photos end up posted to the wrong locations and i can't fix them...

Can you placemark a neighborhood? Rather than remember (and type more) to do checkin at a neighborhood using a location ("Milwaukee, WI [Bay View]"), I'd like to set up placemarks for neighborhoods I frequent. Is this possible?

I have to locate my place which is not in the gmap ?
It is in south India
I have the latitudes
How i can add this to the map and place search??

I'm trying to figure out why the posts at
3200 S Arlington Rd, Akron, OH 44312, USA

As shown here:
http://brightkite.com/places/e891ee03...

Aren't also showing up with searches for "3200 S Arlington Rd, Akron, OH 44312, USA"

http://brightkite.com/places/2cc92d61...

I can create another custom place with that same address and get this:
3200 S Arlington Rd, Akron, OH 44312, USA http://brightkite.com/places/2cf3d3b2...

which has the Target check-ins but not the check ins at just the address.

And strangely one custom search added a Plus4 to the zip and came up with this address:
3200 S Arlington Rd, Akron, OH 44312-5216, USA http://brightkite.com/places/3688daa4...

Obviously searching for 44312, Panera doesn't produce the desired result.
http://brightkite.com/places/search?q...

The end goal would be to preserve the check ins at a location that has the custom label of "Panera Bread". But I can't seem to do that...

Do you have any thoughts as to what might be going on and how a user could resolve this inconsistancy?

Is there a way to backdate checkins to add places you've visited in the past but are not currently at?

Is there a way to retroactively hide a location. I'm finding that my home address is now coming up in google searches due to brightkite posts. I guess this goes along with making a location such as home always private.

So, I want to check at a La Madeleine in San Antonio. Here is the search.
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Brightkite finds the place.


But, when I click on it. I'm taken to a La Madeleine in New Braunfels, TX.


This same thing has happened to me from the Saltgrass Steak House in the same shopping center as La Madeleine.

My brightkite name is hmhalff.

For some reason, when i update to a placemark, twitter doesn't update my location (as a tweet, not as the location in profile). But notes and photos work fine. Ideas?

here is my twitterstream for example: www.twitter.com/cosmopolitician

i'm not receiving mobile updates to my friends locations. I'll receive stuff that they say but it won't tell me when they check into a new location. It's been this way for about 24 hours.

Location given to Twitter seems limited to 30 characters. Can you instead pass it a less granular address, or lat/long coordinates

See http://twitter.com/pottedmeat

could you add visited countries???
like visited places???

like where ive been

please and thank you this would my brightkite brilliant!!!!
thanks

How can I put in a correct name for a location and actually move the place marker?

Business locations: some addresses for businesses appear to be out of date. Any way to correct them?

Maybe I'm missing something, but is there a view that shows all notes on the area map based upon their location? For visiting new cities or checking out new areas of town, this seems to be a very helpful feature for finding out what's nearby (and worth checking out).

Is there a way to post a photo, caption AND location from my Blackberry?

I'd like the ability to edit our notes and locations, as well as maybe being able to insert location check-ins into the past. Here's why:

Sending a text with the '&' characters cuts off the rest of the message. Would be nice to sit down at a computer later on and edit that, keeping the time and location, and keeping things neat. Instead, I just had to make a note later explaining a previous note, and it's sloppy feeling and useless to the present.

While out traveling, I forgot to check-in to different locations, so I sent pictures and notes and they're all assigned to my home. No way I see to edit the location. That sucks because I didn't want to delete all those notes and pictures--and everything after--just to fake checking in, in the proper order, and remembering my later notes and possibly re-entering them again, too. Plus, it costs money to send pictures over mobile phone, so who wants to send it twice just to make up for not being able to edit.

I also forgot to check in at a lot of places I visited while traveling, even though I'd like them to show up on places I've been and have a sort of visual representation of my journeying. It'd be nice if I could just insert a check-in and enter the date and time. If people forget to check in, they can sit down when they remember and enter it in on their computer or whatever and fill things out. Maybe then also be able to append notes to check ins into the past, too.