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I'm Chris. I live in Brooklyn. I like craft beer, geography, travel, hiking, biking, news media, and a lot of random things that are mostly of little or no consequence.

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January 8th, 2010 at 4:20PM

Foursquare. Everywhere.

foursquare:

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.