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There is so much potential for geo-fencing. I'm currently trying to figure out how to use it for a one-time scavenger hunt, with no luck in figuring out the tec

by klbarry 15y ago

There is so much potential for geo-fencing. I'm currently trying to figure out how to use it for a one-time scavenger hunt, with no luck in figuring out the tech. A service for this would be worth money, certainly.

dsri 15y ago
You should check out SCVNGR: http://www.scvngr.com http://www.scvngr.com
buss 15y ago
My startup is in the early stages of building a platform for geosocial apps. We want to tie together the identity providers (FB, 4S, GoWalla, anything else) with the geodata providers (SCVNGR, SimpleGEO, FB, 4S, Gowalla, etc) into a unified API. The vision is being able to say "Give me all of the bits of geodata my friends have left on any service" with a single call. We are going to provide hooks for data and identity providers to tie into our platform. Would you be interested in something like this, and what would you want out of it?
- klbarry 15y ago
  I would want the ability to easily create opt in geofencing for geographic texting at any location - central park, a bar, etc. A bit different from your vision.
  - buss 15y ago
    That's a neat idea. Kind of like geographically localized chat rooms? We've been considering that as a demo app for the platform. The initial idea was just to mark a point and a radius for a chat room, then when users enter the area they'd get a notice pushed to the phone like "geochat app has a chat room here. want to join? [yes/no]". The app developer would use our api to tie a (lat,long,radius) to an action (geochat-app/load-chat/{chat-id}, for example). Combined with our own app that monitors user location, we can run the appropriate action for the (lat,long,radius,app,user) set and launch the developer's app. A specific bounding box instead of a radius is a good idea, and we'll add that to our to-do list. Would something like this be useful to you?
caseorganic 15y ago
Cool! We're looking to solve that problem too. We'll release a toolset for non-developers in December (along with a suite of tools for developers). There are so many people out there that want to do scavenger hunts, but it is very difficult to do it from scratch.

by klbarry 15y ago

dsri 15y ago

You should check out SCVNGR: http://www.scvngr.com http://www.scvngr.com

buss 15y ago

My startup is in the early stages of building a platform for geosocial apps. We want to tie together the identity providers (FB, 4S, GoWalla, anything else) with the geodata providers (SCVNGR, SimpleGEO, FB, 4S, Gowalla, etc) into a unified API. The vision is being able to say "Give me all of the bits of geodata my friends have left on any service" with a single call. We are going to provide hooks for data and identity providers to tie into our platform. Would you be interested in something like this, and what would you want out of it?

klbarry 15y ago
I would want the ability to easily create opt in geofencing for geographic texting at any location - central park, a bar, etc. A bit different from your vision.
- buss 15y ago
  That's a neat idea. Kind of like geographically localized chat rooms? We've been considering that as a demo app for the platform. The initial idea was just to mark a point and a radius for a chat room, then when users enter the area they'd get a notice pushed to the phone like "geochat app has a chat room here. want to join? [yes/no]". The app developer would use our api to tie a (lat,long,radius) to an action (geochat-app/load-chat/{chat-id}, for example). Combined with our own app that monitors user location, we can run the appropriate action for the (lat,long,radius,app,user) set and launch the developer's app. A specific bounding box instead of a radius is a good idea, and we'll add that to our to-do list. Would something like this be useful to you?

caseorganic 15y ago

Cool! We're looking to solve that problem too. We'll release a toolset for non-developers in December (along with a suite of tools for developers). There are so many people out there that want to do scavenger hunts, but it is very difficult to do it from scratch.