2018/Nuremberg/geo

Geo Data & Maps was a session at IndieWebCamp Nuremberg 2018.

IndieWebCamp Nürnberg 2018
Session: Geo Data & Maps
When: 2018/10/20 14:22

Participants

• [facilitator URL and name] (session faciliator)
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Notes

• https://plus.codes/
• https://what3words.com/ (not really open)

• GeoCoder to go from Long/Lat to Adresses

https://sebastiangreger.net/2018/05/self-hosting-maps-control-privacy-ux/

• For Android, logging can be done with GPSLogger, which is still actively maintained and does HTTP posting and will save a file locally. https://gpslogger.app/
• https://owntracks.org/
  • They did not stop the Android version of Owntracks, much to popular belief. It's been restarted, but is still in beta. https://twitter.com/OwnTracks/status/964895584791515137

Backitude: https://petermolnar.net/location-tracking-without-server/

iOS wanderings (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wanderings-travel-tracking/id1292503352?mt=8), aaronpks https://github.com/aaronpk/Overland-iOS

How to handle intentionally inprecise data

- look up location, choose element in tree, other-direction geolookup for 

* Options for reverse geocoding
** Google 
** Bing
** Nominatim (hosted or self-hosted)

Indigenous for Android now supports sending location and the experimental Micropub location-visibility property(https://indieweb.org/Micropub-extensions#Location_Visibility). And there is a feature request to build in Reverse geocoding(https://github.com/swentel/indigenous-android/issues/133)

Can we have post type discovery for check in posts? https://github.com/tantek/post-type-discovery/issues/40

See Also

• location
• 2018/Nuremberg