After Madblog, how many of you would like #ActivityPub and #Indieweb support to come to GPSTracker too?
This is an idea that I’ve been flirting with for a while.
Like many Millennials, 10-15 years ago I was into the Foursquare-mania. It was the age where pubs would offer discount to their Foursquare mayor and where people used to share their Foursquare stats and compete on how many badges they had collected.
Then Foursquare decided to pivot its platform towards the business-side instead, the check-in app was spun off into Swarm, it gradually lost users but it gained trackers, and by now I think only 1-2 of my contacts (out of >100 in the golden age) still use it.
By now I don’t think anyone has filled that gap; there isn’t any social media built around networks that share and recommend their check-ins.
#GPSTracker already supports a lot of tracking, timeline and check-in features, synchronization of geo events with mobile devices, and even stats with arbitrary aggregations (by country, time range, city, region etc.). Plus some features that Foursquare never implemented (like searching for checkins on the timeline by simply selecting an area on the map).
#Microformats already support location tags through the h-adr class, although they are rarely used. Both #Webmentions and ActivityPub could send check-in activities as permalinks to pages with those tags. And the #OpenStreetMap APIs could do the heavylifting of retrieving POIs in in a certain lat/long box.
The only hurdle would be implementing the protocols under the hood, as both the Webmentions and Pubby libraries are in #Python while #GPSTracker is in #Typescript. But it could be a good chance to start writing multi-language bindings for those libraries.
Let me know if it’s something that you would use, or even self-host, and if you know if there’s anything in the Fediverse that already fills this niche.
A general-purpose library to add Webmentions support to your website
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in reply to Rivoluzione mobilità urbana🚲 • • •Ormai ci siamo, manca un giorno al Cargo Bike Day.
Vi aspettiamo domani in Piazza Castello/viale Gadio dalle 10 alle 18! Ecco il programma:
☀️Durante tutta la giornata sarà possibile provare diverse bici cargo gratuitamente
🗣️ 10-11 talk con vari ospiti per parlare di Città Cargo e del futuro della logistica urbana a Milano
🔖 11:15-13 workshop: costruiamo una campagna per Città Cargo
🚲14-16: Cargo bike parade in giro per le strade della città!
📦16:30-18: Cargona la gara di carico a ritmo della musica!
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Ci vediamo lì! 🙌🏼
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Rivoluzione mobilità urbana🚲
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Tendenzialmente ho contatti con associazioni e attivisti di Milano, quindi quando ricevo da altri canali (gruppi telegram e WhatsApp di cui faccio parte), inoltro nel fediverso.
Per le cose fuori Milano di solito rilancio quello che altri mettono sul fediverso, ma non ho contatti con realtà locali di altre città, mi spiace...
Quindi potrebbero esserci altre cose, ma me le perdo...
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