Meet Me Halfway finds interesting places near the halfway point of two locations
If you ever had troubles agreeing on a place to meet, or finding one, you may find the new Android application Meet Me Halfway useful in this regard.
The free application finds the halfway point between two places you specify, and suggests meeting places in the vicinity.
This can be useful if you want to meet a friend for lunch, a short break, or any other situation where you may need help finding a location to meet at. And yes, you can also use it to find the halfway point between different cities or even countries.
If you are in a long distance relationship, you may use the app to find a meeting place suitable for both of you.
When you start Meet Me Halfway for the first time you are asked to enter two addresses into a form at the bottom of the screen.
You can use geolocation to fill out your current location automatically, but do not have to do so to use the app.
Once you have added the two addresses, usually in the form "city street" you need to tap on the Meet Me Halfway button to look up the halfway point and potential meeting places near it.
The app zooms in on the location, and highlights both places that you have selected on the map. An assortment of additional places are displayed near the halfway point of both locations, highlighting bars, restaurants or game stores among other locations where you may want to meet.
You can zoom in or out of the map the usual way, and also open places of interest on Google Maps to display additional information or use the route planner to find out how you can get there.
The application does not offer any sharing options so that you cannot just send the location to the other person's phone. You need to use the phone, email, SMS or other forms of communication to do so.
That's a usability issue. Another issue is that you cannot filter places, so that only restaurants, hotels or bars are highlighted. The application highlights places that are not as suitable for meetings currently, including pharmacies, commercial buildings or drug stores.
Considering that this is the initial release of the application, it is likely that it is going to be improved by its author to resolve those issues.
All in all it is a great idea that could work well with a friend list feature and chat so that suggestions are displayed to all at the same time.
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Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.