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		ydant on Oct 23, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project May I suggest using the W3C geolocation API to get the user's location and pre-populate that? It's Simple to get the Coordinates, and then you can probably use Google's geocode API to get the address. I just tried to use this while traveling and I don't really know my address.

natep on Oct 24, 2010 [–]

Agreed. I don't really see myself using this from my laptop, but if I could use my phone's already known location...

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