2024/Berlin/places

Locations / Places Check-in (Foursquare Alternatives) was a session at IndieWebCamp Berlin 2024.

Participants

• Dennis
• Askan
• Kagami

Notes

• Foursquare main app is closing down in December, looking for alternatives, maybe in the fediverse
• Google Timeline tracks in the background your locations
• Timeline to remember your life and improve memories of location and places
• OwnTracks as alternative to Google Timeline
• Privacy concerns for location tracking
• Data export

• Data format (geojson, etc.)

• Having API for that (Google doesn't have it)

• Using openstreetmap nodes

• Realtime
• Blur certain things out to prevent doxxing (e.g. not publishing the exact coordinates but only city)
• Hugo Theme thats combines GPX tracks with photos: https://gitlab.com/tmuguet/hugo-split-gallery

• https://wanderungen.askan.biz/

• (Getting location data from Garmin watch and photos from mobile phone)

• It's missing option to location tag text

• (Ultra)runners, hikers, travelers

See Also

• 2024/Berlin/Schedule