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Push based on distance from yourself.
I want to define who gets pushed and not by how far away from myself (or my last check in) the check in happens.
The issue is really comes up when I visit another city. I don't want to have to go in and uncheck all friends back home and check the ones in the other city.
Another problem is when friends from afar. I might usually not care about where they drink coffe in Elseville, but when they visit my town and have a beer around the corner I wanna know!
The issue is really comes up when I visit another city. I don't want to have to go in and uncheck all friends back home and check the ones in the other city.
Another problem is when friends from afar. I might usually not care about where they drink coffe in Elseville, but when they visit my town and have a beer around the corner I wanna know!
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Thanks for the suggestion - good stuff! We've got a lot on our plate right now, so it's not on the immediate list, but it's worth considering. Many like following along with where their friends are regardless of proximity, though, so it would have to be flexible. The best thing for now is to turn on notifications for your local friends and turn them off for others.
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Inappropriate?I think I'd want a variant on this where I could specify on a per user basis. There are going to be cases where a friend will go of a distant trip and I'll want to partake in their adventure vicariously, but also, like you said, some friends I'd only want pushes on when they are nearby BUT this raises the questio of what counts as nearby. Is nearby relative to my last checkin or my home base. It I go to the distant friend's home town and she to mine I'd still like pushes so that I could recommend spots near her but if she returns home and I'm still in that town I'd also want pushes because she's physically close. So I think physical proximity is important but so is the concept of a home base.
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Inappropriate?Seriously, is this gonna happen anytime soon?
This is to me the killer feature for gowalla. The reason i use the program is cause I want to know about the people _around_ me. My friend list is growing fast now, and I need to be able to filter by geographical closeness! -
Inappropriate?Thanks for the suggestion - good stuff! We've got a lot on our plate right now, so it's not on the immediate list, but it's worth considering. Many like following along with where their friends are regardless of proximity, though, so it would have to be flexible. The best thing for now is to turn on notifications for your local friends and turn them off for others.
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Inappropriate?I agree (and posted a similar suggestion) that "Show me when my friends are near me" is Gowalla's killer feature. Without it, Gowalla is not much different from Twitter, really -- it's a notification channel with a cultural/social focus on "where I am" rather than "what I am doing".
The database of locations is the perfect foundation for Gowalla becoming a location-based serendipity machine, letting us know when people we like are *close enough to us to actually go out and see them*. It's a huge missed opportunity, a gold mine lying right below your feet.
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