I am using Foodspotting and I am loving it. I have been food spotting forever and did not know I was actually Foodspotting. More on Foodspotting later, I have a bigger post planned, but I came across an interesting use case to pour out to Alexa and her team.

So I mentioned that I have been food spotting for some time. This means I have a back log of pictures that I want to post and tag in the tool. Some of these are not close to my “current location”. Foodspotting’s iPhone app asks to know where I am and assumes that any food that I am tagging is food that I have just encountered. Well, the food that I want to spot is from Kirkland, WA. So I go to the map.

The blue dot indicates that I am in Boston, so I drag the map over to Seattle.

I then make sure my filters are set to spot foods in the area

then I scan the area for foods to let it know where I am?

AWESOME! I found the absolute best coffee shop on the planet, Zoka Coffee. So now I want to spot something. I want to add a fruit salad to the Trellis Restaurant in Kirkland. I setup my shot. (Isn’t it beautiful? That fruit salad was amazing)

And now to tag it with a location.

Oops. The blue dot is in Watertown, MA so I must be there too. Is there a way to do what I want to do which is to add stuff to the database that is not near me? I get why you are doing it the way you are, so that people don’t add a dead woodpecker to some restaurant in Omaha when they are in Boston.

obviously that’s photoshop