And how popular are geolocation projects in Russia?

Question

Geolocation

I constantly read about successful projects using geolocation: find out where friends are, mark places and all that. The question is, do they really use it in Russia? Well, just to regularly use such a service?

Answer 1

Internet is expensive and phones are expensive. In general, I don’t understand what’s the point of tracking the location of friends on the map, if you want to chat, you called and met, didn’t you ??

Answer 2

As long as people buy iPhones in order to not use its features properly, there can be no talk of developing services like Foursquare.

Answer 3

I was at the Startup Weekend in the summer - the game "Fifteen" aroused great interest among investors. The essence was in a kind of tag based on Yandex.Maps and geolocation.

Answer 4

considering the accuracy of the AGPS and the prevalence of projects - in my opinion they are not popular

Answer 5

Convenient for things like finding the nearest cafe, restaurant, cinema. Especially if you are walking with a girl in an area unfamiliar to you.

Answer 6

While the mobile Internet will be an "expensive toy" - and will not be popular.

Answer 7

Yes, it will not be popular in Russia for a long time, well, why is it, for example, a resident of the city of Orel?? You can walk around the whole city in a day

Answer 8

Now, if SMS came when approaching certain places, then the project would not depend on the phone or the cost of the Internet.

Answer 9

Reveal a secret?
Geolocation is not popular.
Twitter is not popular.
Jabber is not popular.
And now the most important thing: all this is not popular not only in Russia!
Why is geolocation not popular? Because all the applications that have been found for her now are useless for ordinary users, and only attract geeks.
Complicating all this is also the price of mobile Internet, geolocation tools (do you really think that everyone has at least smartphones?).

Answer 10

I advise you to just check for yourself: foursquare.com, drugvokrug.ru, vtolpe.ru
there is some activity everywhere. according to my observations, the number of registered (Russians) is measured in thousands, but the percentage of active users is not clear. I am sure that the portrait of a typical active user of such services will be more interesting for you) for me it turned out to be a discovery of the difference between expectations from opportunities and real experience.

Answer 11

I have never met a person who uses something like this in everyday life, although almost everyone knows, friends or colleagues iphone or android bodies