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Ton Zijlstra

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 22:13:57 -0800 from mastodon

The #ActivityPub specification contains check-in and travel related activity types. Nice. You could build #4sq and #dopplr functionality on it. Are you aware of any existing implementations?

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/11/mastodon-does-microformats-activitypub-does-check-ins-and-travel-plans/

#activitypub #check-ins #dopplr #foursquare #microformats

django

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 22:26:32 -0800 from mastodon

@Ton Zijlstra not for physical check-ins, but immers.space uses arrive / leave for virtual locations

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 23:18:20 -0800

I've started on a range of location-based services in (streams). Provided a proof of concept demo just a few weeks ago of posts sorted by distance from a given spot. Will add the relevant activities as this moves forward.

Ton Zijlstra

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 01:06:26 -0800 from mastodon

@mike that sounds interesting! Any online things to look at (blogposts e.g.)?

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 02:11:01 -0800

@Ton Zijlstra
https://unfediverse.com/item/b5f6174b-76aa-44a0-8d43-302e6a479441

mike wrote the following post Sat, 01 Oct 2022 18:01:10 -0700

Here's a proof of concept for geotagged posts. Note: Very few fediverse projects support geotagged posts and very few people have location tagging enabled even if their platform provides it.

But here's a screenshot of my stream sorted by distance from somewhere in Australia (the nearest post was tagged from Thailand 2 years ago on Pixelfed) , followed by the same stream sorted by distance from New York City (the nearest post is from Pennsylvania). Please note that this feature is still in its infancy clearly we need wider adoption to make it useful. I intentionally did not use any proprietary database functions so that you can use it with any SQL backend. When completed, we're hoping to be able to provide a distance sort of geotagged content from either your current device location or an arbitrary location you provide.

Ton Zijlstra

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 02:27:48 -0800 from mastodon

@mike cool. Thank you!

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 03:38:52 -0800

Just took a first cut at check-in (Arrive) activities. Not there yet but it's not very scary.