Foursquare. Everywhere.
Adding New Venues - Asking you for the address of a place every time you add a new venue can be a drag… which is why we finally made these address fields optional. Now when you add a venue from one of the foursquare apps and skip over manually entering the address, we’ll use the phone’s GPS to set the location of that place. This should make adding new places much, much easier.
UGH. This is the worst idea ever. So, if I’m using Foursquare to check the address of a venue, how am I supposed to know that it’s accurate if it’s “estimated” by someone else’s phone’s GPS? And if it doesn’t come up within my range because it’s mispelled when I search for it, there end up being multiple entries for the same venue over and over again - like the four entries I found for the Museum of American History in DC last week… none of which had the right address.
This is an absolute disaster.
If you can’t take two seconds to check the address of the place you’re at when you add it to Foursquare, don’t check-in, you lazy ass.
There is a flip side to this, however. I was at Columbus Park in Chinatown this week. No one had added it, but I couldn’t get an address (because there was no posted address) only cross streets. Not to mention the fact that the park spans like 5 blocks - so which cross street do I put? What address? Having this just tagged on a map would have solved that problem - not to mention that we’re all lazy and don’t want to take the extra time to look something up and enter it in (cuz, honestly, when has anything ever taken 2 seconds on the iPhone?)
2 years ago