2019/Austin/whereami

 Location Data Sources  was a session at IndieWebCamp Austin 2019.

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/whereami

IndieWebCamp Austin 2019 Session: Location Data Sources When: 2019-02-23 14:00

Participants

 * Aneel
 * Stephen
 * Stephen
 * Stephen

Where do we collect data from?

 * GPS Devices
 * FourSquare/Swarm ecosystem
 * EXIF Data on Photos
 * EasyGPS
 * Compass / Overland
 * Arc

Manton is thinking about how he could do location, which Micro.blog does nothing.
 * GPS logger (Android)
 * Geofencing to figure out if David is at home

Cleverdevil.io
 * Overland
 * Store location data in AWS S3
 * Fetch static file minutely
 * Current location available on site
 * service called Athena

Doug
 * Swarm & Instagram (bridged back to site)

Twitter?

Facebook?

How do we get it in a useful form?
Own your swarm: even if endpoint doesn't support, you get the summary

Compass stores in a static file

Path information in a database?

Athena query S3 JSON data


 * Location services
 * Foursquare
 * Google Places

Reverse Geocoding

What do we want to do with location data?

 * On this day...
 * This past year...
 * Annual report

Google history

Mapping trips

Summary pages
 * Last 12 months - Swarm locations
 * Leaflet.js

Wordpress stores in Postmeta
 * https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-location/