2016/NYC/Venues and Checkins

Checkins, Locations, Venues was a session at IndieWebCamp NYC 2016.

(lots of stuff from: IRC starting at https://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2016-01-22#t1453498993472 )

Demo: old and new tommorris.org checkins.

Venues

• Issues with openstreetmap and derived APIs.
• issues w/ licensing of Foursquare data

Want

Offline (actually async) checkins!

Why? Because:

• not always online (e.g. underground in a subway station without even cell service nevermindwifi)
• do not want to wait for network! most of the time checking into places I've checked in before, therefore *should* be cached.
• minimize distraction from being "present" and present surroundings (politeness, safety etc.)
  • should ok to add checkin comments (shouts), stickers etc. later
• "Post(square)" workaround is awkward - sometimes confuses or annoys friends on Swarm/Foursquare.

Tools

• http://maps.me/ for iOS and Android - works well offline; can save bookmarks with notes
  • can export bookmarks on iOS to email attachment (KMZ), or to any number or sharing sources on Android
  • KMZ file could be used to seed a maps database
  • possible future IndieWeb project - forking Maps.me iOS/Android apps to use as Swarm-style checkin apps
• "offline foursquare" projects
  • https://technobabbl.es/2015/11/blast-from-the-past-offline-foursquare/
  • aaron straup cope's privatesquare: https://github.com/straup/privatesquare