I think I am the only one who posts my altitude to my website.

@dshanske sure, but do you post your battery level? @aaronpk does -> aaronparecki.com

And do you post detailed walks with GPS and photos? @johnjohnston does :) -> johnjohnston.info/blog/yest...

@dshanske but I must say, the way you post altitude is pretty rad :)

@nitinkhanna Wasn’t suggesting there aren’t lots of good location based features. I love seeing what people come up with. I was trying to see if I could push someone else to add it. I want to add more location features. I just added private geofencing.

@dshanske I was just pulling your leg! Whenever I think about interesting features on blogs, these two names come up, and now yours.

How does private geofencing work?

@dshanske As an aviation buff, I think it's very cool.

@nitinkhanna Well, geofencing is the idea of triggering an event when something enters, leaves, or is inside an area. The biggest issue I had with adding my location to posts was that sometimes, I didn’t want to be specific as to where I was. Now, if you are inside one of these zones, it will hide the actual location automatically and replace it with a text description, such as ‘Home’, or ‘Work’. (Like this post on my website).

@dshanske oh, that would be cool! Hiding your location by approximating it seems so much more difficult than it should be!

@the The altitude reading on phones is not necessarily the most precise and can vary. It is GPS based, with some calculations done. I compared it to the altitude showing on the in-flight map and it isn’t that close. When there is no altitude data, my website actually uses an elevation API to provide an estimated altitude. For example, it is estimating my house is 29 meters above sea level, but I don’t display altitude unless it is significant.

@dshanske Thanks