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
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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