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?

places.pub

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