Federated Geolocations?
The Social Web Foundation (@swfSocial Web Foundation) recently launched places.pub, a service that ties OpenStreetMap location data into ActivityPub vocabulary. Maybe this could be used as a building block for a federated FourSquare, or event locations?
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places.pub
I’m making an initial version of places.pub available today. places.pub is a collection of Place objects suitable for use in geosocial applications on the ActivityPub network. Part of my work…
socialwebfoundation.org · Social Web Foundation
Link author: Evan Prodromou@evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org