#geocode — Public Fediverse posts
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→ GBIF Geocoder: using GBIF to find places on a map
https://iphylo.blogspot.com/2026/02/gbif-geocoder-using-gbif-to-find-places.html“The idea behind the "GBIF Geocoder" is that GBIF has a huge number of geocoded specimens, and hence if you are looking for coordinates for a locality there is a good chance that somebody has already found them. So, all we need to do is search GBIF for specimens with localities that match the place you are trying to geocode.”
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The numerous geocoding systems vary in #granularity (#precision) achieved with a certain amount of letters, & in their audience or #community.
Above, I gave the example of #Maidenhead Locators (#QTH) commonly used by #HamRadio people.
Different cultures use different #geocode|s for reasons.
AFAIC, it would allianate communities to single out a particular system & mark it as ›general‹ by using a prefix like ›#GEO‹.
Platforms should #welcome & represent a variety of cultures.
🏷️ #OLC
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Btw, #normalization of #georeference|s is not trivial, because it requires techniques called #InstanceMatching.
It's an entire field of ongoing research.
A search for one of the #Berlin|s should be able to come up with
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🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocode #Georcoding #Georeferencing #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi #ActivityVocabulary
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Btw, #normalization of #georeference|s is not trivial, because it requires techniques called #InstanceMatching.
It's an entire field of ongoing research.
A search for one of the #Berlin|s should be able to come up with
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🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocode #Georcoding #Georeferencing #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi #ActivityVocabulary
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Btw, #normalization of #georeference|s is not trivial, because it requires techniques called #InstanceMatching.
It's an entire field of ongoing research.
A search for one of the #Berlin|s should be able to come up with
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🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocode #Georcoding #Georeferencing #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi #ActivityVocabulary
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Btw, #normalization of #georeference|s is not trivial, because it requires techniques called #InstanceMatching.
It's an entire field of ongoing research.
A search for one of the #Berlin|s should be able to come up with
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🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocode #Georcoding #Georeferencing #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi #ActivityVocabulary
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Btw, #normalization of #georeference|s is not trivial, because it requires techniques called #InstanceMatching.
It's an entire field of ongoing research.
A search for one of the #Berlin|s should be able to come up with
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🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocode #Georcoding #Georeferencing #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi #ActivityVocabulary
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People who want to use exact #georeferencing in a posting should have a way to do so, for example for offline events or to describe #geospatial (or #marsian) features.
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🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocode #Georcoding #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi #ActivityVocabulary
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People who want to use exact #georeferencing in a posting should have a way to do so, for example for offline events or to describe #geospatial (or #marsian) features.
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🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocode #Georcoding #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi #ActivityVocabulary
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People who want to use exact #georeferencing in a posting should be able to do so, for example for offline events or to describe #geospatial (or #marsian) features.
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🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocode #Georcoding #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi #ActivityVocabulary
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People who want to use exact #georeferencing in a posting should have a way to do so, for example for offline events or to describe #geospatial (or #marsian) features.
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🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocode #Georcoding #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi #ActivityVocabulary
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People who want to use exact #georeferencing in a posting should have a way to do so, for example for offline events or to describe #geospatial (or #marsian) features.
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🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocode #Georcoding #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi #ActivityVocabulary
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I take it for granted that users must be able to decide upon the precision of the #geocoding they use for their postings.
And that they must also be able to decide upon the geogaphic range of search when they lookup #georef|erenced postings.
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🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocode #Georeferencing #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi #ActivityVocabulary
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I take it for granted that users must be able to decide upon the precision of the #geocoding they use for their postings.
And that they must also be able to decide upon the geogaphic range of search when they lookup #georef|erenced postings.
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🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocode #Georeferencing #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi #ActivityVocabulary
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I take it for granted that users must be able to decide upon the precision of the #geocoding they use for their postings.
And that they must also be able to decide upon the geogaphic range of search when they lookup #georef|erenced postings.
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🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocode #Georeferencing #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi #ActivityVocabulary
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I take it for granted that users must be able to decide upon the precision of the #geocoding they use for their postings.
And that they must also be able to decide upon the geogaphic range of search when they lookup #georef|erenced postings.
🌺
🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocode #Georeferencing #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi #ActivityVocabulary
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I take it for granted that users must be able to decide upon the precision of the #geocoding they use for their postings.
And that they must also be able to decide upon the geogaphic range of search when they lookup #georef|erenced postings.
🌺
🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocode #Georeferencing #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi #ActivityVocabulary
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The location property of the #ActivityVocabulary does not only support exact locations but also areas in the sense that it allows for ›logical locations‹.
A logical location could be ›near Berlin«, but also a #geocode with reduced precision.
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🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocoding #Georef #Georeferencing #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi
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The location property of the #ActivityVocabulary does not only support exact locations but also areas in the sense that it allows for ›logical locations‹.
A logical location could be ›near Berlin«, but also a #geocode with reduced precision.
🌺
🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocoding #Georef #Georeferencing #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi
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The location property of the #ActivityVocabulary does not only support exact locations but also areas in the sense that it allows for ›logical locations‹.
A logical location could be ›near Berlin«, but also a #geocode with reduced precision.
🌺
🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocoding #Georef #Georeferencing #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi
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The location property of the #ActivityVocabulary does not only support exact locations but also areas in the sense that it allows for ›logical locations‹.
A logical location could be ›near Berlin«, but also a #geocode with reduced precision.
🌺
🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocoding #Georef #Georeferencing #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi
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The location property of the #ActivityVocabulary does not only support exact locations but also areas in the sense that it allows for ›logical locations‹.
A logical location could be ›near Berlin«, but also a #geocode with reduced precision.
🌺
🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocoding #Georef #Georeferencing #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead #HamRadio #AFU #CBFunk #CitizenBand #CiBi
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Relax, no one is seeking to re-invent any wheel.
This thread is more about usability than it is about implementation.
No one can make use of #semantic properties in a vocabulary as long as they do not show up in frontends.
So, rather than deter consideration, let's keep the dialogue going.
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🏷️ #OLC #QTH #SemanticFediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Pixelfed #Fediverse #Geocode #Geocoding #Georef #Georeferencing #OpenLocationCode #PlusCode #Maidenhead
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After some testing, it would be worth to consider #geocoding of postings as a #FeatureRequest to #Fediverse developers, preferably not as #hashtag but as a separate property of postings, like #ContentWarning:
CW is implemented using the #abstract property of #ActivityPub.
To create a CW when boosting a #Friendica posting on #Mastodon, the author uses [abstract] markup in the Friendica posting.
Similar may be possible for #geocode|s.
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It also sprang to my mind this second. :))
I removed the middot which I used for better #readability. It's hard to enter on a smartphone, too.
Now I dropped middot as well as underscore, because that saves at least one character in toots with #geocode. :)
A #geocoding #hashtag will be hard to digest for people using #screenreader|s, though.
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🏷️ #QTHJO62 #OLC9F4M #CitizenBand #CiBi #27Mhz #CQ #AFU #CBFunk
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It also sprang to my mind this second. :))
I removed the middot which I used for better #readability. It's hard to enter on a smartphone, too.
Now I dropped middot as well as underscore, because that saves at least one character in toots with #geocode. :)
A #geocoding #hashtag will be hard to digest for people using #screenreader|s, though.
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🏷️ #QTHJO62 #OLC9F4M #CitizenBand #CiBi #27Mhz #CQ #AFU #CBFunk
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It also sprang to my mind this second. :))
I removed the middot which I used for better #readability. It's hard to enter on a smartphone, too.
Now I dropped middot as well as underscore, because that saves at least one character in toots with #geocode. :)
A #geocoding #hashtag will be hard to digest for people using #screenreader|s, though.
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🏷️ #QTHJO62 #OLC9F4M #CitizenBand #CiBi #27Mhz #CQ #AFU #CBFunk
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It also sprang to my mind this second. :))
I removed the middot which I used for better #readability. It's hard to enter on a smartphone, too.
Now I dropped middot as well as underscore, because that saves at least one character in toots with #geocode. :)
A #geocoding #hashtag will be hard to digest for people using #screenreader|s, though.
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🏷️ #QTHJO62 #OLC9F4M #CitizenBand #CiBi #27Mhz #CQ #AFU #CBFunk
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Have a look at my use of #geocoding hashtags:
→ https://mastodon.social/@jpreisendoerfer/109727868336726649
I think it'd be better to prefix the respective #geocode with an abbreviation indicating its type.
#HamRadio people will often want to use #Maidenhead (#QTH) locators rather than #OpenLocationCode (#PlusCode).
Plus char can be dropped from OLC, because ›OLC‹ indicates #PlusCode.
For reduced precision, drop trailing OLC letters.
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Have a look at my use of #geocoding hashtags:
→ https://mastodon.social/@jpreisendoerfer/109727868336726649
I think it'd be better to prefix the respective #geocode with an abbreviation indicating its type.
#HamRadio people will often want to use #Maidenhead (#QTH) locators rather than #OpenLocationCode (#PlusCode).
Plus char can be dropped from OLC, because ›OLC‹ indicates #PlusCode.
For reduced precision, drop trailing OLC letters.
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