Open thread, Feb. 23 - Mar. 1, 2015

MrMind

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If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

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A few days back I made a ZeeMap for LessWrong and promised to post it in an Open Thread, so here it is: https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=1323143

It's basically a way of finding people that share a particular interest living nearby. There is no need to register - just add your marker and keep an eye out for someone living near you.

Maybe this should be linked from the front page?

5philh11y

I like these things, and I've added myself, but... there've been similar ones in the past, they don't stay up to date. I feel like without some way for users to know, six months from now, that the information they're looking at is still accurate, any given iteration is never going to be very useful for long. An idea that's floating around in my head, I think I've mentioned it before, is that a service like this could require everyone to occasionally confirm that they're still in the same place. Send out an email once a month, they can click a link or reply to remain on the map, or ignore it to be removed.

3Evan_Gaensbauer11y

This is great. This is totally a thing I can use for this. Thanks!