Calendar to show a "Show Upcoming Events" option in the search. If you don't tap it we don't access it. Photos to allow installing the app on an SD card (popular request). Identity to use your name in the Send Feedback option. Here again if you don't tap it we don't access it.
All excellent points. You're right we should have put more thoughts into our city roadmap. We basically looked up US city metro populations and went with that (how terrible, I know). With all the traffic and feedback we get now, it has become clearer which cities should have been prioritized (Miami and San Diego for instance were an absurd waste of time and resources). DC is definitely coming this week, followed shortly by Seattle and LA.
Haha, yeah probably canadian myopia. I think it's because we had a couple requests for Austin a while ago so we decided to do it. But with all the requests we're getting now, it's much more clear which cities need to be added next (Seattle, Washington DC, L.A., Portland).
Thanks for the technical precisions re: address geocoding in NYC.
Right now, tapping the return key will try finding an exact match of what you entered on Foursquare. If it fails, it will fall back to the geocoder and then proceed immediately with the routing request. This will be improved in 1.2.1 as the return key will now be labeled "Search" instead of "Route" and will no longer trigger the direction request.
Indeed the foursquare suggestions make address lookup confusing, as the Foursquare suggestions sometimes make no sense with what the user entered. I thought of maybe leaving them out when the search text starts with a number, but then that would leave out venues that start with numbers as well.
I agree. It's also a problem for Victoria and Kelowna in BC, which are both listed under Vancouver. We need to find a way to better communicate this information in the near future. Maybe something like a search or use the browser's geolocating services to tell you whether your area is supported or not.
You'd be surprised at how ugly the data we get provided is. The "curating" is actually much of the work we do. We probably spent as much time developing internal tools that clean and improve that data that on the app itself.
Server costs and continued development also are recurring expenses. Like I said, we might have gone down a different path if Apple allowed paid upgrades, but they don't.
Yeah, like Jarek said. A bunch of very small agencies in cities close to Montreal, but not far/big enough to give them a "dedicated" city page/bundle...
We haven't. You're right that some help on the business side of things wouldn't hurt. With the iOS 6 launch though, Apple is pretty much taking care of the marketing end. Not sure what else could VCs bring us... (maybe that's just me being naive here)