Ha, this is basically saying to go to the bar during business hours.
Avoid Humans: Your temporary respite from the masses
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#12kerning!
They avoided kerning.
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#14Amusing and provocative concept, but pragmatically challenged as the majority of people don't use apps like Foursquare or other check-in services. Moreover, those that do are likely not a representative sample of the broader population... so, as a proxy for crowdedness, the data feeds from apps/online services fail in most cases/places, IMHO.
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#15So apparently, to avoid humans in my low density suburb I should - rather than, say, go to a park or trail - go to (1) Dunkin Donuts; (2) the local pizza place (3) the supermarket.
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#16Asking for my location when I don't have any idea what is going on is a pretty quick way to get me to close the tab.
You could always say no as I did. though its not loaded in the time I have taken to write this.
That's because it uses your location to determine nearby locations to search, so without your location it doesn't really do anything.
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#17If you can deal wih maybe 20 people, a rafting trip on the Tamur in Nepal is the closest I have come to absolutely "no one else here". No wifi. No electricity. A couple of nights with only the group and a large bonfire.
I can avoid social interaction with good connectivity and a thousand people around, or with only a few, but ten or twenty people (and nothing to distract me or them from having to talk!) seems like it would make that impossible without actually being antisocial...
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#18Around half of the suggestions near me are vandalism. This desperately needs a way to flag such.
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#19To test this manually, go to google maps and paste the lat/long into this site. e.g. https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6205099,-122.3493306,19.75z --> http://avoidhumans.com/list.php?lat=47.6205099&lng=-122.3493...
Is their data purely comprised of people who use this app? No wonder everything is green everywhere...