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 when I search for it within my range because the address is wrong and someone else mispelled the name of the venue, 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… all four of which had mayors, and none of which had the correct 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.
True story, if I ever have to estimate the address, I’ll make a note on my phone or on a scrap of paper and edit it later — I can’t stand incomplete entries. I don’t even want to admit how much time I spend touching up/tagging venues, editing addresses, and merging venues.
Crowd sourcing is absolutely a saving grace for foursquare - and vetting the ability to edit entries by usage is great too. I just wish so much effort wasn’t required in checking in. It would be perfect if it could be checking my location every few minutes and if it detects I’ve stopped somewhere, it pushes my a dialog asking me if I want to check in at X location. Launching the app, hitting check in, searching for the venue, spending 10 minutes adding it; all of that is going to turn a lot of people away initially, and even more over time if something better comes along.
