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Special-case "home" place?
"Home" would be a useful special-case place (otherwise, everyone has to come up with a clever name for theirs, and I'm tired of mine already; most people would want the address to be vague, if not private, too).
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Inappropriate?This is one of those things that we are looking at, but didn't get fixed prior to launch. We're currently thinking about providing the ability for users to create and manage anonymous locations. These will contain a name and a city/state/zip/country, but will not be identifiable by an address. This doesn't solve the unique name issue, but it gets partway there.
Personally, I would like this, too. I offset our house by a bit to avoid specifically identifying our address.
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Inappropriate?There should be a private option, because this issue goes beyond just my home. If I go see a friend, I don't want to give away their address, either. -
Inappropriate?Even with the 'private' option I am still a bit leery of giving out my home address. I was looking for a way to use a major intersection instead of a valid address for my 'home' location, say like 'SE 39th and Hawthorne'. I guess I could use one of the businesses near that intersection for an address but it seems wrong to miss-label an otherwise valid address. -
Inappropriate?Great comments and conversation... From the beginning we've talked through privacy surrounding Places (over and over again)... We're definitely thinking through how to deal with Places that are considered private, such as one's home, but haven't found the perfect solution just yet.
As for other people's homes, the basic stance that we've taken, is if that person has put their house on Shizzow, we shout from their house. If not, then we don't shout and just go "off the grid" until we're back at a place that is in the Shizzow database. The key here is that it's okay, and you should feel encouraged, to not shout anytime you do not want to disclose your location no matter what the reason is, whether for privacy, security or any other concern you may have.
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Inappropriate?So, is there a way to clear my last shouted location? If I am done at the bar and headed home, is there some way to say 'no longer at the bar' but now at some location I am not disclosing? Or is there another method for going "off the grid"?
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Inappropriate?We're currently working on adding the ability to "leave" a location. You can expect that capability to be available within the next couple of weeks!
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Inappropriate?Getting back to the original topic (a special/private/home location). We like the idea, and it sounds simple enough up front, but when you start following the details of different use cases to conclusion you find yourself tackling bigger issues than you'd expect. Here's one example.
A "private" location requires someone to "Administer" it and approve who can see shouts from that location. If you own your own home this is pretty simple, but people in a shared housing environment.. Not so simple. Who get's "ownership" to administrate the location? What happens when the person with ownership moves and doesn't pass ownership to a remaining household member? Especially if it wasn't an amicable departure and they are purposefully not passing ownership. People will need a place to petition problems like this for resolution and we don't have the resources to support it right now.
What we really need is a more elegant solution, and we have a couple ideas, but the basic functionality of getting people together takes priority. I expect this issue to get addressed in the future, though probably not the immediate future.
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Inappropriate?since this has so many votes I have opened a task in the shizzow work queue to get us to a solution. -
Inappropriate?shizzow already supports multiple place records with the same address. each person in the household would have their private 'home', which can be the same place.
if someone searches that address, they would see the version of the place that belongs to their friend, or a list of the duplicate places if they have multiple friends with the same private home address. -
Inappropriate?For private locations, I think I'd like to mark areas or districts that I'm in, but more tightly bound than city/state/zip/country; think neighborhoods in Portland terms. That said, having user-definable regions does run the risk of turning into the sort-of-a-mess that is http://www.wikimapia.org. -
Inappropriate?Would it be possible to do something like if I add a place and check a box for "home" then I don't need a street address and I can just enter an intersection? I don't want to fake an address but I don't want to give the world my house either. Or allow part of the setup to walk through adding a location and the suggestion is home (which also gets you exceptions to exact street address)?
A) I am not a coder.
B) I am just thinking out loud.
I’m pleased the company is listening!
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Inappropriate?I also like the idea of being able to specify roughly where "home" is, without giving out the exact address. I like the idea of being able to see who's nearby and perhaps discover acquaintances who live in my neighborhood.
I might still want to shout from there (even if the location isn't specified at all) -- people who already know where I live will know what I mean by "home."
As others have described, I settled on using a nearby intersection for the "address" of my home.
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