To do usability and i18n testing before putting things live :)
Even if we assume that the google map link is useful for people in the US or UK or whatever (which I think we both agree that it isn't, but let's assume that it is) then it almost certainly isn't useful for people within Russia (well, unless they travel outside Russia a whole lot). In fact, it makes the feature less useful because there are radom useless links littering thigs up.
It's not a case of "people from $country are getting more than us" (as are phone posts, for instant) so much as a case of "our usability is being decreased in order to increase usability in $country".
A possible option would be, for instance, having a "link my location too google maps" check box on edit info, and then take its default value based on whether google actually maps the country that person has set. Possibly not the neatest solution, but it would solve the problem as I see it.
(Of course, a better option would be to get rid of the link all together, but I'm writing this comment based on the assumption that it's a good thing.)
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Date: 2006-03-30 01:17 pm (UTC)Even if we assume that the google map link is useful for people in the US or UK or whatever (which I think we both agree that it isn't, but let's assume that it is) then it almost certainly isn't useful for people within Russia (well, unless they travel outside Russia a whole lot). In fact, it makes the feature less useful because there are radom useless links littering thigs up.
It's not a case of "people from $country are getting more than us" (as are phone posts, for instant) so much as a case of "our usability is being decreased in order to increase usability in $country".
A possible option would be, for instance, having a "link my location too google maps" check box on edit info, and then take its default value based on whether google actually maps the country that person has set. Possibly not the neatest solution, but it would solve the problem as I see it.
(Of course, a better option would be to get rid of the link all together, but I'm writing this comment based on the assumption that it's a good thing.)