Nudging the location pin when creating Spot...

I love the idea of being able to boost the radius! I went to Mohegan Sun Casino to collect my first stamp the other night, and didn't realize I was going to have to go to the exact location where the spot was created! Let me just say that the casino is pretty big, and of course I came in at the opposite side of where the spot was!

I've seen a couple of people having issues with the pushpin not dropping in the right place - are you guys going to support moving it? Couple of times I've had to go outside and I don't like going outside when it's cold!

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Moving the pushpin.

Glad to hear that y'all are working on this! I've only created two spots so far, but both have dropped pins that are no where near the spot — due to problems with GPS.

It breaks my heart that my babies aren't perfectly placed.

( I'm not OCD. I'm not OCD. I'm not OCD. )

Do you want us to report bad drops to you, or wait until we can edit them ourselves?

Eva: it's at 315 South Main Street, Salt Lake City — halfway between the intersections of Main and 300 South, and Main and Market Street. The pin should be on the east side of the street.

Brüges Waffles & Frites: it's at 336 West Broadway, Salt Lake City — halfway between the intersections of Broadway and 300 West, and Broadway and 400 West. The pin should be on the north side of the street. Also, Broadway (depending on the map) is also called 300 South.

:)

You're a saint, Jonathan!

I too need to nudge some pin placements for spots, but how do we specify exactly where they need to be?

how can you edit a location? the map pin is in the wrong spot

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move map pin.

I realize you said you're already planning to address this. But I figured I'd chime in anyways. Some sort of extended fudge-factor would be *very* helpful for those of us with inaccurate location systems. For my 1st-gen iPhone, best case is that there's a registered WiFi AP nearby, othewise, it's just going to latch on to the nearest cell tower, which is usually quite a distance away (I've seen it put me a half-mile or more away from my actual location in a couple of instances).

Using the GPS accuracy info to dynamically adjust the location radius in some way would be awesome. In other words, if I create a spot with a really bad location error factor, take that into account when people try to check in at that location later. And maybe as more people check in, with more accurate devices, use that to automagically nudge the spot location (take an average of the previously recorded location, and the device location, weighted for accuracy?)

I've created several spots, only to find -- to my dismay -- that the created location is waaaay off-base. Which means that others will have trouble checking in. And I might even have trouble myself on the next visit, just because of the fluctuating signals from various nearby towers. And on a couple of occasions, I was unable to create a new spot at all, because the app would just sit on the "verifying location" message forever.

Being able to make spot location corrections from the phone would be great, but I'd settle for being able to do it after-the-fact on the web site.

As an aside, what about the notion of doing a search on the server side at creation time for nearby locations matching the given name? For example, something like this:

* I start to create a new spot. I name it "Joe's Pub", pick an appropriate category, and submit.
* On the server side, Gowalla does a search (google, yahoo, or whatever) for "Joe's Pub" near my phone's location. Mark each match with some sort of relevancy score, and if matches above a threshold are found, send a list back to the phone.
* If the phone gets a list of possible matches back, let me choose the best one for an exact address location, or a choice of "none of these" to just use my phone's GPS location.
* If there are no matches, just use the GPS info as you do now.

Thanks for adding this feature! I was able to fix a lot of the locations of my spots. What is the approx radius of each level? Eventually, It would be nice to see the radius on the map to make sure it encompasses the entire location (with a buffer to account for GPS float)..but in the meantime, thank you!