Brightkite gives totally wrong location when checking in.
when checking into certain places, Brightkite totally changes the location. When trying to checkin at "Göteborg centralstation" (the train station in Gothenburg, Sweden), I find the entry doing a search both from the iPhone app, and from the web site. But when I checkin, or got to the place, I end up in "Grand Duchy of Luxembourg". The same thing happens with "Stockolm Centralstation" in Stockholm, Sweden (where I end up in "Republic of Estonia") and there seems to be the same type of problem for several other locations like searching for "Nordiska Kompaniet Stockholm" puts you in "Kingdom of Norway"...
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It's not ideal, but we've put in a workaround for the issues you ran into...all of the locations you mentioned should now resolve properly. If they don't, or you run into other wrong locations, please let us know.
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Martin
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Inappropriate?Sometimes, this happens because Google gives us the wrong accuracy level for your location. We're working on a fix that should be deployed soon.
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Inappropriate?It's not ideal, but we've put in a workaround for the issues you ran into...all of the locations you mentioned should now resolve properly. If they don't, or you run into other wrong locations, please let us know.
Thanks,
Martin
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Yes, this solves the problem. It works fine to find the places and they don't point to the wrong country anymore. Thanks for the fast fix! -
Inappropriate?I get same problem. Darling Harbour instead of Darlinghurst. Can you change on map manually?
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ca1ico, does this look right? http://brightkite.com/places/f1e640fa... It is missing info like state, country, etc. but that should hopefully be fixed soon.
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