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I'd like to be able to set a plaze position by coordinates when there's not an exact address available to enter, typical for landmarks: I tried to enter a beach position but unsuccesfully.

Everytime I am at some plaze I need to enter all data as that plaze is not in the database. Of course, I don't expect to have everything already in, but as a beginning wouldn't it be easier to import the list of points of interests available for every GPS system (and let's say included in Nokia Maps for instance!)? In this way I can just select a plaze from the available ones rather than needing to add it every time.

The Plazer (at least the Windows 2.1.2711.24648 version) seems to check in repeatedly when I let it automatically check in, even if my network connection has not actually changed. This is especially a problem when I'm on our flaky company WLAN access point which looses connection very often.

I now run the Plazer in manual mode because of the excessive number of "bogus" check ins I get, but I often forget to check in when I would have wanted to. Could another mode be added please? A kind of semi-automatic mode? Functionality would be something like this:

1) When automatic check-in would actually change our Plaze to different Plaze as our most recent activity, simply check-in automatically like it does now.
2) When these two Plazes would come out as one and the same, notify the user (in the OS default way, like a notify bubble in the status area or "MSN/Outlook notification toast" in Windows) about it, giving the choice of check-in or not

This would cut back on useless duplicate check-ins immensely I think.

Default welcome screen should show "Contacts & you". The paradigm of Plazes is to join to your friends' plans, not to check your own plans.

I know that with the Nokia merge, you probably have a lot of work and that the #1 goal is the mobile phone integration.
However, Geode (Mozilla) integration could be nifty: Plazes could show the closest plazes to choose from a list. First the closest one and so on.
A Fire Eagle integration could offer something similar (as proposed by others on GetSatisfaction).

(and I'm not talking about an iPhone app :-)

Maybe it's a crazy idea, but when you try to update by sms it's hard to tell the exact plaze because it has a long name, and it can end creating a new one.

Maybe each plaze should have an alias, so the name could be long and descriptive for a web/plazer use but easy to call from mobile platforms.

A feature I would love to see implemented is an integration with Yahoo!'s Upcoming: it would be pretty handy to be "automagically" "plazed" at an event I'm attending when setting that information on the Upcoming website... It would make perfect sense since Plazes allow one to be "plazed" in a future activity and Upcoming can feed Plazes with the place, time and nature of the activity.

If nobody supports a plaze going there... maybe it should be deleted.

PS: It could be a solution to reduce duplicated plazes. If you change your plaze to "the real one" you leave the duplicated empty of people.

On "User's worldmap", would be great to start with the a zoom to cover just the area with Plazes, not the whole world.