Mike's dashboard

A comment on the problem "Brightkite can't find my location! What's up with that?" in Brightkite:

Yes, we will definitely update this thread once that feature is available. – Lesley, on June 12, 2008 15:38

A comment on the problem "Brightkite can't find my location! What's up with that?" in Brightkite:

Thats what I wanted to hear :D Any chance you could drop me a line when that happens or better yet just add another comment right here? THANKS! – CoPe, on June 12, 2008 15:08

A comment on the problem "Brightkite can't find my location! What's up with that?" in Brightkite:

CoPe, you will be able to drag and drop your location on a map very soon. :) – Lesley, on June 12, 2008 15:06

CoPe replied on June 12, 2008 08:59 to the problem "Brightkite can't find my location! What's up with that?" in Brightkite:

Its a bit annoying that we can't move the place-mark around the map to the correct position. Since I can't move it to its correct position I won't add that location...

A comment on the problem "Brightkite can't find my location! What's up with that?" in Brightkite:

Great! Glad you got it working. You can add a custom label to any lat-long location you use by adding [Insert Name] after your coordinates. Once you are able to click on a map to set your location, it should help with a lot of these types of problems. – Lesley, on June 10, 2008 23:39

lame software lover replied on June 10, 2008 23:24 to the problem "Brightkite can't find my location! What's up with that?" in Brightkite:

uhm..what format is that longitude and lat 'sposed to be entered? decimal or deg-min-sec? Nevermind it worked.

lame software lover replied on June 10, 2008 23:11 to the problem "Brightkite can't find my location! What's up with that?" in Brightkite:

I am pretty sure that it worked. It was a month ago so foggy here. However, if it had not worked- I would remember that.

A comment on the problem "Brightkite can't find my location! What's up with that?" in Brightkite:

Just to be sure I understand correctly...when you signed up you successfully entered your location and were able to create a placemark? Then the placemark got deleted and now your location that you entered before is no longer showing up? – Lesley, on June 10, 2008 23:05

lame software lover replied on June 10, 2008 23:00 to the problem "Brightkite can't find my location! What's up with that?" in Brightkite:

I put my address in when I first signed up and it seemed like it worked fine. However, the place mark is gone, and now my home address no worky. Kinda put off by that. But hey, that is why you call this 'BETA' right? How will I know when this is fixed- I am not going to randomly put my address in hoping that one day it will work.

A comment on the problem "Brightkite can't find my location! What's up with that?" in Brightkite:

I find this frustrating as well. It's sort of a complicated issue that we are working hard to resolve. In the meantime, you can check in using lat-long and placemark that location for easier checkins. I know it's not the most convenient workaround, but it's been helpful to users experiencing this problem. Soon you will be able to drag and drop your location on a map to select your location. :) – Lesley, on June 10, 2008 20:55

sportsconnector replied on June 10, 2008 15:39 to the problem "Brightkite can't find my location! What's up with that?" in Brightkite:

Has this issue been resolved? I too can find my home on the google maps, but not on Brightkite.

snowygrl replied on May 28, 2008 04:51 to the problem "Brightkite can't find my location! What's up with that?" in Brightkite:

In on the Big Island of Hawaii and it seems like the entire cities are missing... I can see places like Kohala Coast on the map but the closest I can get is 10-20 miles away...

A comment on the problem "Brightkite can't find my location! What's up with that?" in Brightkite:

Unsurprising. If you search Businesses for Big Lots in Yorktown, VA, you get the business, but clicking it confuses the site (it can't find the address). On the iPhone it's worse, just small black text on a white background saying "not found". In reality, it just can't turn Mem (google's version) into Memorial (Brightkite's version). It also can't handle just "Highway 17", or Hwy 17, which should theoretically work fine. Just like how nuthatch is looking for a highway number, but Brightkite only knows the name. – Thomas, on May 23, 2008 05:21

johnp replied on May 18, 2008 17:10 to the idea "What's the outlook for phone-GPS and cell-phone tower auto-checkins?" in Brightkite:

i assume they're preparing something for the launch of the new iphone? (been playing with the sdk i hope!)

Equus replied on May 13, 2008 16:53 to the idea "What's the outlook for phone-GPS and cell-phone tower auto-checkins?" in Brightkite:

I'm not affiliated at all with this guy or product, but I stumbled upon it and have used it with great success on my WM 6.1 phone. http://www.luisespinosa.com/trackme_e...
I use it w/my GPS. It writes KML files and uploads them to Google, where I can then track my movements nearly Live. It has an option to look for 'friends' but I assume those are just people that use the service. Where I live, there are never any. But if this guy can schelp together something like this, I assume BrightKite can out-do this. Real-time /semi realtime tracking of friends etc. Every location (address etc) can be converted to GPS coordinates.. and vice versa. This is more like what I thought/hoped BrightKite would be about.

David replied on May 13, 2008 10:14 to the idea "What's the outlook for phone-GPS and cell-phone tower auto-checkins?" in Brightkite:

Even without GPS you should be able to do some rough location finding using mobile phone masts. In fact I assumed that feature was the core of the service!

Plus you should say up front which countries this feature covers when it is implemented.

Equus replied on May 12, 2008 23:28 to the idea "What's the outlook for phone-GPS and cell-phone tower auto-checkins?" in Brightkite:

I would love this in a mobile client. I too have a GPS enabled phone. It would be nice to see visually locations of friends inside Google Maps or Msn Live Search!! I'm surprised it's not here yet, since this is a mobile client. Please pay more attention to WM phones since GPS capable phones are getting more common.

Luke replied on May 10, 2008 14:39 to the problem "Brightkite can't find my location! What's up with that?" in Brightkite:

I've just posted this elsewhere but seems relevant - let us fine tune the position of placemarks on the map and that will solve a lot of problems. I wanted to set my position in my University Department but searching for it either changes the post code (search for LE11 3TU brings back LE11 2) or picks a point on the wrong side of the campus. If I could just drag that pointer across that would be problem solved

Mike replied on May 10, 2008 06:29 to the idea "What's the outlook for phone-GPS and cell-phone tower auto-checkins?" in Brightkite:

I would love this too, especially since I have GPS built-in to my AT&T Tilt, it seems silly to make those of us with GPS look up the address manually.

Mike started following the idea "What's the outlook for phone-GPS and cell-phone tower auto-checkins?" in Brightkite.