Thread: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)
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MasterZap is offline MasterZap
2011-05-20 , 10:53
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Originally Posted by morti View Post
Another vote for this feature, in heavily cluttered places it's nearly impossible to find the correct place for check-in.
There is a vague plan for a text-list at some point... just not yet.

Originally Posted by morti View Post
Similarly, when creating a zaploc for multiple services at once, sometimes it's not possible to set the same check-in location for all services as the list is filled with irrelevant places. A search would be helpful here as well.
Good to know the algorithm:

The list of places are filled in based on a center point. For the search on the service you clicked, the center point is that of the thing you clicked (basically guaranteeing that the item you clicked are top on the list for that service). For the OTHER services, though, search center is *screen center* (tiny crosshair).

If I ever implement scrolling in the little popup lists, this will become a non-problem, I hope. Searching is an idea too... but a much bigger project.

It's all down to the insanity of me making my own UI, but it's fun that way

Originally Posted by morti View Post
Going one step further, what I would ideally like to see at any given time is a searchable list of nearby places that I can check in to, without ever even needing to look at the map. I could then do simple single-click check-ins or choose to create a zaploc for the best locations. But maybe that's just me
You mean m.gowalla.com?

Duly noted, however, in my mind, the UI is really just a tool to create ZapLoc's, and once you have those, you never use anything else (and auto-checkins take care of the bulk of checker-innery for you).

This is a hobby/weekend/evening project after all, and I make it _primarily_ to do what I myself want to do, _secondarily_ as a coding excercise, and _tertiary_ because I'm mad, MAD I TELL YOU!

/Z