use google contacts for locations
Use the geocoded addresses from google contacts plus a custom field for radius or polygon coordinates for locations. This way we don't have to maintain yet another list of locations (contacts, RTM, locale, etc). Lead the way on leveraging existing data stores. This would also make it easier to re-support multiple geographies for each location.
kristopher.dick
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While an interesting idea, our studies have found the location data in contact lists is not very useful. Most people don’t even have addresses in their contact list. And for those addresses that are in the contact list, most of the “locations” in your address book aren’t really going to be places you’d want the ringer to be silent (e.g. who puts the movie theater or library in their address book?)
The best use case I could see for this would be a consultant who travels to a number of different clients, and would like his ringer to turn off at each of those client locations. Having done that type of work in the past, I could see such a feature useful. I just don’t think currently there are enough people who would need this sort of functionality.
Is there any important use case that’s been missed?
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EarlyMorningHours
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I really like this idea. It could even be expanded to Google Contacts groups. For instance, if your location is anybody in the contact group "Family".
