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?
How do we add a business listing not currently in your database? I'm sure you're pulling from an external database or something but we need to be able to add listings so we can check in at new businesses.
It might be nice to be able to change the location of a post. I posted a picture then had to delete the post because I'd forgotten to change locations before sending the email.
We recently added my company to Google local in the hopes that it would then be available to check in with the "Name (Address)" format in Brightkite.
Am I wrong in assuming this is where that data comes from? How can I make this happen? I'd like to have the place name in there, rather than just the address.
I would like to edit my visited places because I thought I set up a placemark but didn't and I ended up checking in 2000 miles away somewhere in Indiana. Is it possible to edit check-ins? If so how?
I have two ideas for you're already awesome service:) 1. It would be great to have a "check-out" option. When I leave a place, I may not get to the next location for a while, and I'd like folks to know that I'm not at the last location anymore. 2. I would like to have an additional level of privacy for my home address. Basically, if I could just have home address be set to always private, but still say "home" that would be awesome.
Sometimes when a location is accessed different ways (search vs. exact address vs cross streets), it becomes two or more separate nodes.
It would be great to provide a 'nodes near this node' that shows all public nodes in a close proximity, with the option of merging one or more with the currently selected one.
I would recommend that the end users simply be able to suggest a merge, or vote a suggested merge up or down, with specific cutoffs that either kill the suggestion or perform the actual merge based on votes and time passed since the suggestion. Also, visitors who post more often to one of the suggested nodes could have a heavier vote weight (to an extent).
As a best practice, it would be nice if you guys added hcards all over the site, wherever an address or person is mentioned.
Apart from publishing hcards, it'd be cool to allow for importing of hcard addresses. For example, I could paste a Google Maps URL into Brightkite and Brightkite could fetch the hcard(s) from the page to help locate me, or somehow interact with the driving directions, showing me people that I might know in different areas.
In any case, adding hcards seems like a no brainer and something that could be done pretty quickly.
I've found myself posting pictures of food and restaurants. Imagine the possibilities when people want to try out a new restaurant and can search it on the brightkite site, and actually see what it looks like inside, and even some of the food! Great usage! Maybe you could have some sort of point system to award users who picture places/businesses that have never been pictured before! And issue them more invites on that point system. Or after "invite only" some other incentive to post pictures.
It's really hard to find and add new locations and placemarks from the web UI. Example: I'm about to go to a Starbucks up the street, so I tried typing "Starbucks" into Brightkite's search box. I even tried "Starbucks Westminster, CO." But your web UI can't find that store unless I do something like go to Google Maps in another tab, find that store manually, then copy and paste its address back into Brightkite.
I think some attention could be paid to the way locations are shared outside of Brightkite. I really like the privacy levels you allow us to set for Brightkite users, but my entire home address gets sent to Twitter since I have that sharing feature turned on. I don't really want that to happen.
I'd rather stick with only allowing my trusted Brightkite friends to see my home address, and perhaps something like a location alias being sent to Twitter and other external services. So when I SMS that I'm @home, my Brightkite friends can see my full address, but maybe the Twitter message is simply "David's @home."
Can you give me some idea of how the "Nearby notifications" feature works? How close does someone have to be to me for me to get their notifications? Does this mean "notifications from my friends that are nearby," or "notifications from ANYONE that is nearby?"
One thing I'd really like to be able to do (and I'm not sure if the "nearby notifications" feature accomplishes it, or not) is get notifications from different groups of friends based on my location. For example: I live in Seattle. Most of the time, I want to get text notifications of what my Seattle friends are up to. However, I sometimes visit, and also have a lot of friends in, San Francisco. If I am visiting SF (which Brightkite would know, because I would have checked in in SF), I'd like for Brightkite to start sending me text notifications for my SF friends and stop sending me text notifications for my Seattle friends.
Is something like this possible? I would love for it to work automatically based on my location, but another (maybe simpler?) alternative would be to allow me to create friend groups, and let me turn on or off notifications for an entire group with on click or SMS command. So, when I went out of town, I could go like, "deactivate seattle" and "active sanfrancisco," or something.
Just some thoughts. Overall, I'm loving Brightkite. Keep up the great work, guys!
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