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2008-07-21, 09:40 PM
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Member
2008-07-22, 12:38 PM
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grocery store OR dry cleaning OR pet store
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Yup, we have a feature request for kilometers. We're working on some nastier bugs first, so we may not be able to give you kilometers for a while yet, but we do hear the request.
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Guest
2008-07-22, 06:19 PM
The location feature in Context seems to always trigger the "Directions" function in Google Maps.
In some countries "Directions" doesn't work (Japan for example) as Google Maps only returns a dialog stating that it can't find the driving directions. Switching to "Search" in Google Maps doesn't move the search term over and as the iPhone has no clipboard so no work around for the problem. :( It would be great if one could choose to have the Context's Location feature trigger the Google Maps' "Search" rather than "Directions". .tmk
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Member
2008-07-22, 10:28 PM
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Just used OF on my iPhone for the first time, really great for holding all the polterabend plans it was working on great, incl making me write to the attendees with info. Heres another request, how about if i onder a project can inport the contacts that is needed when this project is finished or to help me on a step in this project? you can put in 1 location, buisness or something like that, but when if an action could have a list of people who need to attend, imported from the contacts on the iphone? (if this isnt on the desktop version, feel free to apply it there ;) )
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Member
2008-07-24, 06:20 AM
Us Brits use miles too.
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Member
2008-08-06, 09:31 AM
A way to define what "nearby" means is super important to me. In New York, it means a 5-10 minute walk. B&H Photo is around 2 miles from my apartment, but it's a half an hour by subway, an hour by foot, or a $10 cab ride.
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Member
2008-12-13, 10:05 PM
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Here's my example use case posted elsewhere here on the forums (hope that's ok): I'd like to know where the nearest real grocery store is when out of town (and my explicit A OR B OR C list may not correspond to grocery chains in that area), but half the time it just shows me a Shell or Arco station's mini-mart, because they are listed as grocery stores. Not helpful when I need to shop for Thanksgiving dinner fixings. Of course, sometimes a Coke and bag of Cheet-Os may be all I need and the mini-mart would be great, so the real issue is that the Business Search database taxonomy (wherever that lives) doesn't have sufficient granularity to serve my common use cases. (Or maybe it does - I'm blind guessing what keywords will work as business searches, so if there is a published taxonomy, can you point me to it?) A solution that would provide lots of other benefits would be to show all the relevant businesses within a set radius, and include them ALL on the Google map you link to from the <1 mile button in the location headers. This is pretty much what other business search apps like Yelp do, and it's infinitely useful. It would help me screen out the mini marts, and also choose to go .1 mile further to a supermarket that I knew had the brand of whatever I preferred. Getting a single, closest hit is just not helpful enough that I'm even confident I'll get in the habit of using locations, and I LOVE the idea. Thanks!
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