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Old Oct 12, 2012 | 9:50 am
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cvarming
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Originally Posted by Science Drone
You might be on to something there. Foursquare's mobile apps report the user's GPS coordinates as part of the checkin. Web-based checkins (like the mobile website and Auto4sq) don't have that info. Topguest may have decided they need coordinates to "prove" a checkin is legit.
Foursquare used to report back coordinates for the locations you checked into. You could harvest all the locations and then supply them at later check-ins. I did that and I haven't gotten points for several weeks now.
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