When Near Me came out last summer, I was pretty excited. At the time I was working on a public facing application where people could filter a list of parks by their amenities to figure out which one they should go to. And it would be so nice, if they could put in their address and get the list sorted by their location. But, I was very disappointed by the actual implementation of the Near Me Widget. I wrote up my complaints on the ideas board here, but to summarize I just don't like the user interface of Near Me, especially for a public facing application, and I don't want to give up more screen space to Near Me when I already have a well-designed List Widget. I ended my rant on the Ideas board with this:
