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Map view of Around Me
In the Around Me page, it would be handy to have a Map view similar to the one you can get when viewing an individual user's locations. Since the checkins are usually long addresses that aren't as intuitive as "3rd and Spring" I don't really process the data that quickly. When I want to know what's going on around me, I want to "look around," not read a list -- and the closer something is to me on the map, the more likely I am to care. If I could see a map of who has checked in around me and posts from the area, that would provide a very handy summary of where I am and what there is to do.
Maybe the map could have a time filter like "Show checkins/posts from the last ( )hour ( )day ( ) week ( ) all time" etc.
Maybe the map could have a time filter like "Show checkins/posts from the last ( )hour ( )day ( ) week ( ) all time" etc.
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Inappropriate?We agree. We are working on vastly improving the mapping experience throughout the entire site. Among those improvements are an "Around Me Map", clustering of nodes, and map filters.
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Inappropriate?especially useful when there are few brightkite people around me, or I don't know anyone who uses it yet, whose around me. These "early adopters" are exactly the kind of people I'd like to find! Before everyone and their brother is trying it out!
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Inappropriate?YES. I thought this functionality would just be in here, searched for it b/c it seems so basic and obvious. I second the filter by time as well- seems like a lot of check ins currently are old by the time you get somewhere (you guys need to time bomb those and add checkout functionality)
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Inappropriate?We are implementing check out's which will be reflected in the maps.
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