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Jesse David Hollington replied on December 01, 2009 00:48 to the question "Incorrectly closed venue" in foursquare:

Since nobody else has responded yet, I've simply re-opened it, but I'm wondering if it's possible that it may have been marked closed due to being considered a duplicate of another building or address at a similar location?

Jesse David Hollington replied on November 30, 2009 16:14 to the idea "Style guide for superusers" in foursquare:

The other problem with not having venue identifiers is that it only works if people enter useful address information when creating locations. The geo-location works best with postal codes, but you can get away with it as long as there's a reasonable street address.

Unfortunately, it's not uncommon to see something like "Yonge St" listed as the only address information for a place like a Starbucks, and as anybody in the Toronto area knows, Yonge St is 1,896kms long :) so there are potentially a LOT of Starbucks along there (realistically, Yonge St proper is only 56 km long, but that still leaves a lot of ambiguity).

A comment on the idea "Style guide for superusers" in foursquare:

The theory is that the location-based services should be good enough at pinpointing where you are so as to exclude any "false hits" from venues that are out of your immediate area.

When I first started using Foursquare, for instance, I tried to check in at my local "Starbucks" in downtown Toronto and ended up inadvertently checking in at a Starbucks in Brampton (~25 miles away), as it was the first hit named "Starbucks"

This seems to have been fixed from a location-based point of view, although I agree with the other posters in this thread that the location identifiers still provide useful additional cues when looking at places and locations in various listings. I've actually made it a mission of mine to go through and find placeless stores and correct them wherever possible in my area to avoid confusion. – Jesse David Hollington, on November 30, 2009 16:07

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A comment on the idea "Style guide for superusers" in foursquare:

For places like Starbucks I normally look them up in their online store locator and use the name that appears there. The Store locator is also useful for finding postal codes and phone numbers to add to the entry.

In some cases where the official entry only specifies a street address I'll fall back on picking the nearest significant intersection when the store is located at a corner or at least within a reasonable distance from the corner. – Jesse David Hollington, on November 30, 2009 16:05

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A comment on the problem "Problem editing a particular venue as SU lvl 1" in foursquare:

Yes, I noticed that one too when I was trying to update and correct the various Apple Store entries a couple of weeks ago. I actually found it rather odd that the Sherway entry comes from Wcities yet the other four don't. – Jesse David Hollington, on November 15, 2009 18:34

Jesse David Hollington started following the idea "Vote down/out non-tips? Add "reviews"? Something must be done." in foursquare.

Jesse David Hollington started following the idea "See common venues on friend requests." in foursquare.

Jesse David Hollington started following the idea "Make outstanding todo items more obvious when when you check in" in foursquare.

Jesse David Hollington replied on November 08, 2009 18:10 to the problem "Problem editing a particular venue as SU lvl 1" in foursquare:

Unfortunately, it seems that entries from Wcities can't actually be edited by Superusers (at least at Level 1).

You can see that they're Wcities entries by looking for the note at the bottom that says something like "This listing (c) Wcities 2009"

Jesse David Hollington replied on November 08, 2009 17:37 to the problem "Duplicate, please merge." in foursquare:

Note that I've been going through and proactively cleaning up all of the duplicates, standardizing names and entering accurate address info for the TTC stations and Starbucks locations, as well as anything else I happen across as I'm wandering about. I'm flagging duplicates that I come across int he process, but I'm only a Level 1 Superuser at this point, so I can flag duplicates, but can't actually merge them yet.

Jesse David Hollington started following the problem "reported location does not match actual location" in foursquare.

Jesse David Hollington replied on November 08, 2009 17:31 to the problem "reported location does not match actual location" in foursquare:

Fixed.

The postal code was wrong, which is obviously what the map was based on. It was M4V 1J9, which is Balmoral Ave in the Avenue Rd and St. Clair area. The correct postal code is M5V 1J9.

Jesse David Hollington replied on November 08, 2009 17:27 to the idea "Update wcitities info." in foursquare:

Agreed, as well as information such as cross streets, which are currently not listed for most Wcities entries either.

Further, until it *is* possible to edit these entries, there should be some indication as to why the "Edit" pencil doesn't appear... Too me a while to figure out why I couldn't change any of those particular entries.

Jesse David Hollington started following the idea "Update wcitities info." in foursquare.

Jesse David Hollington started following the idea "List Support" in atebits.

A comment on the question ""RT" for retweets" in atebits:

That's it. The settings you see are for the "Quote Tweet" option. The Retweet option always uses RT, presumably via the API. – Jesse David Hollington, on October 10, 2009 00:36

A comment on the idea "Support for bit.ly accounts (not just bit.ly shortening)" in atebits:

Heh, if only it were that easy, but I think that "private betas" are called "private" for a reason.... – Jesse David Hollington, on September 25, 2009 23:00

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