One of the first questions people ask about Walk With Me is: "Wait, so people can see where I am?" and my short answer is: "Not from the pin on the map."
Walk With Me shows walks on a map. But a pin on someone's exact spot didn't sit right with us. We wanted the map to show "roughly where" a walk is happening rather than "exactly where" the walker is standing.
We shift each walk's pin on the public map by up to 200 meters (100 meters for a live walk). The shift is worked out from the walk itself, so it stays fixed for that walk and everyone sees the same shifted pin, rather than the real spot.
The pin is the part that's shifted. The walk's details, including the meeting point you write and its map, are visible to anyone who can see the walk. So set your meeting point somewhere public, like a park gate or a café, never your front door. If you'd rather keep a walk to people you know, set it to Friends or Just me.
During a live walk, the public pin moves with the host, still shifted. The host can also share their precise location, updated about every 30 seconds, and that only goes to the people they accepted onto the walk.
Join requests go to the walk host for approval by default. Once you're accepted, you can see the host's precise live location when they share it, and a "Find your host" helper points you to them at the meeting point. That's the key distinction: precise live location is for accepted walkers only.
We could have made the app text-based, but that kills the magic. The whole experience is opening the map and seeing green markers of people walking around your city right now. The 200m offset, host approval, and precise location only for accepted walkers give us the balance between useful and safe.
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