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Originally Posted by christexaport View Post
We thought about that on Symbian Freak, but not everyone was for it. But a home listing could be a city or geographic region, even. Just not only a country. What is USA? Alaska or Florida? It would only draw users together. I know there are lots of Silicon Valley and Telecom Corridor/DFWites here, but most of us hide our location.
Aw come on, that was an easy in for you to propose a new idea

Maemo.org prefence panel
- Location
-- *Display Location: Yes/No
-- Type: Manual, Link to device (this would be a WRT-like widget/panel on the Maemo device)
-- Display: Coordinates, City/State (Province)/Region, State (Province)/Region, Region, Use Device's Saved Landmarks

*Upon clicking this, the person would be greeted with a prompt in their web browser asking them to download a WRT/widget/preference applet which would connect to the user's device. Bonus points for integrating with Ovi Maps on the device.

The more Maemo (as a site) and be a seamless experience to the devices and services, the better it would be for all folks.

And think about it, there could be *another* thread here based simply on location tags. Could make for some interesting meetup possiblities (online-offline mashups).

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But yea, I get the core idea; it would help in some instances to see location.
 

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