iPhone / Android app : I Must Go There
This app requires a mobile device with GPS geo-tagging of images… The idea is that you stumble across a place that you are intrigued by - a pub, secret club, beer garden, park, gallery, photo opp site, etc - but it’s not the right time! So you take a snap of the place from within the app… The picture(s) gets added as a physical place of interest… The user can then add optional information: notes (as to why), tags (perhaps a set of pre-defined tags such as: dinner, private, secret, club, party, pub, breakfast, scenic, etc + the option to add their own tags), place name, additional directions… They must also add appropriate ‘fuzzy’ times to the location. Multiple times can be selected - the idea being that when you are looking for something to do / somewhere to go, you can eliminate inappropriate locations by based on time: very early morning, morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night, late night…
So when you are looking for a place to go, you can browse a GPS enabled map of your surrounding based on locations you’ve entered…
A Facebook-type app can be combined with this to make it even more powerful and beneficial… I.E. You’re going to Berlin, one of your friends has been before, or lives there… You can browse their locations and add whatever ones appear to your own…
This can also be tied in with reviews / ratings by people who’ve been to these locations… Ratings by friends weigh in much higher than that of strangers…
Location merging would have to be handled by the users by submitting a merge of two locations… Majority votes rule in favour of merge or separation…