#geosocial — Public Fediverse posts

@Edent

Because this was double-posted (microblog Note + blog Article) on my timeline, I will copy/paste here, that on the delightful fediverse experience curated list I have a separate category for #GeoSocialNetworking solutions ..

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/#geosocial-networking

#ActivityPub #SocialWeb #GeoSocial

@Edent nice article!

I notice you didn't mention as:Place in #ActivityStreams vocab. In your previous article you mentioned "there is good news and bad news" around as:Place, and I deduced the bad news was that Mastodon didn't support it.

Regarding the #SWICG #GeoSocial task force proposal, you wrote:

> The primary thing missing from the proposal is any form of understanding what users want to do with a geotagged post.

In both the observation on Mastodon support and mention of a geotagged *post* there's an implicit assumption on the application domains this pertains to: (micro)blogging social media.

I gather that the range of business/app domains that may have geosocial capabilities is much broader than that. And while a list of generic use cases can be brainstormed for support, things will be quite solution-specific. And the TF perhaps better provide good guidance and building blocks for that.

Broader question is whether fedi is already tied shut in a microblogging straitjacket.

What's the best way to identify a location in a Fediverse post?

#EvanPoll #poll #geosocial #microsyntax

@berlinfediday

Hey @clemensg
wollen wir dort oben etwas eher technisches vorstellen, z. B.
die fedigeo und die Föderation von OpenStreetMap und wikibase, oder so – oder beides :)
?

@benpate ^ ^ above post for your info cause 'Atlas' …
it feels that Berlin FediDay should get some #geosocial stuff :)

#ActivityPub #OSM #fedigeo #geosocial

Currently I am finishing the OpenStreetMap to ActivityPub / JSON LD module.

The `type`, `context`, ìcon`, `nameMap`, `url` and location parts are ready.

Now it is a giant puzzle to transform all the OSM tags and in particular to make a nice i18n `summaryMap` and `contentMap` text out of it.
So, if you know simmilar projects, please let me know
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hello @geomob
it seems that my teeth do not allow me to attend geomob Cologne today. I am deeply sorry.

Basically working on fedigeo, federated geocoding and routing. Had some talks and keynotes about it. Public Spaces AMD is pinned but we also had a german talk at Berlin Fediday. Let's stay in contact.

#geosocial #geocoding #geo #cgn #Köln
et al.
signed up for gemob Cologne in the evening but can't go - anyone?

#geosocial #fediverse #fedigeo
@julian
@mat
et al.
This is about https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:IO which will stop to exist „by the end of the year“ https://digitalcourage.social/@mat@friendica.exon.name

We will mark it as "deprecated" and send an `Update` then.
What else to do?

[we did assign the following already]
XK Kosovo
XF In Flight
XS At Sea (intl)

for "do nothing" or other, please comment
:digitalcourage:

The monthly SWICG GeoSocial Task Force meeting is about to start if you have thoughts on location data use cases and the social web.

https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/ed630a3d-7581-4053-9978-75949ad42f2a/20260108T130000/

#geoSocial #GeoSocialTF #SWICG

#SayWhere Geocoding System: Human-Memorable Geographic Coordinates
[ based on #geohash ]

:digitalcourage: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-saywhere-geocoding/

#geosocial #geodata

Notes from the 2025-11-13 @socialcg Geosocial Task Force meeting

https://hedgedoc.socialweb.coop/s/H4O8EhObI

#geoSocial #SWICG #fediDevs

We're experimenting with federated geosocial features in Bonfire, free from surveillance capitalism.
Check into your local community garden. Add location to mutual aid requests. Find tools nearby.
Imagine your local fablab or community center sharing check-ins, calendars, events, opening hours - all federated. A living hub for what's happening there.
🔧 https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/issues/1444

This unlocks new possibilities for local organizing, let's explore together 🔥

#Geosocial #CommonsEconomy #Fediverse

Seeking interop testing for geosocial ActivityPub client

Hey, all! I’m seeking some help testing an application I whipped up for the Geosocial task force of the W3C Social Web Community Group. It’s called https://checkin.swf.pub/ , and it’s a barebones checkin service, similar to Swarm, but implemented as a pure Web client. You can watch the application in action.

https://videopress.com/v/zCMu0OeZ?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true

It logs into your account on an ActivityPub server using OAuth 2.0. It […]

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/07/14/seeking-interop-testing-for-geosocial-activitypub-client/

Notes from the 2025-07-11 @socialcg Geosocial Task Force meeting

https://hedgedoc.socialweb.coop/s/D0KSCTo0J

#geoSocial #SWICG #fediDevs

The monthly meeting of the @socialcg Geosocial Task Force is starting now!

https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/ed630a3d-7581-4053-9978-75949ad42f2a/20250710T130000/

#geosocial #SWICG #fedidevs

@Jeremiah #geosocial
working now on a compact representation of all the geo things described in https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues/582#issuecomment-2498916869

It is for a kv store which would play nicely with fedify @hongminhee

I have a question about the conversion of as:Place properties to the geo: uri scheme cause I am pretty bad at math.

Can we convert geo: `Uncertinty` to as:accuracy ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_URI_scheme#Uncertainty

And:
The most compact representation would be geohash again but then we might loose some precision if it is "certain".

E.g. the link
geo:37.786971,-122.399677;u=35?info=a

is normalized to a kv key array (like any link by user/pw, host, pattern or path, parameters, hash, search etc.)

resulting in e.g.
2|9q8yywzm0ccy|;35|?info=a
but reversed then to

geo:37.78697108,-122.39967691;u=35?info=a

[semantically ok cause uncertainty but not strictly equal]
But can we calc what uncertainty means e.g. 1 floating point of the coordinates?

btw: enums, using fedidb for constant host shorts, most popular have then 1 byte, then 2 :)

Notes from the 2025-06-12 Geosocial Task Force meeting

https://hedgedoc.socialweb.coop/s/VEYqgy8ft

#geosocial #SWICG #fedidevs

The geosocial task force in the W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group meets today at 19:00 CEST / 13:00 EDT.

Join if you would like to discuss details related to representing location on the social web. @herebox is leading the writing of an explainer for the most common location-related usecases.

https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/ed630a3d-7581-4053-9978-75949ad42f2a/20250612T130000/

#geosocial #SWICG #fedidevs

»places.pub is a collection of #Placeobjects suitable for use in #geosocial applications on the #ActivityPub network.« https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/04/29/places-pub/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

"So, I worked on making #placespub for #geosocial #hackers to experiment with. It’s a service that exposes places from the amazing #OpenStreetMap collection of data as #AS2objects on the Web. So, given an OpenStreetMap object… it provides an AS2 version suitable for use in geosocial activities in #ActivityPub. It also has a rudimentary search mechanism, although most users will want to search the OSM database, and then map the IDs onto places.pub." @evan

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/04/29/places-pub/

places.pub

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/04/29/places-pub/

Todays #ActivityPub #geosocial TaskForce meeting was fun, here are some preliminary notes:
https://hedgedoc.socialweb.coop/s/D7yKLjJQs#

et.al
please attend the upcoming events https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/socialcg/calendar/

For a meeting that didn't have but 1 agenda item before it started, the SWICG Geosocial Task Force just had a discussion packed second meeting figuring out how to make location data better on the social web.

Next meeting on February 13.

Notes: https://hedgedoc.socialweb.coop/s/D7yKLjJQs

Repo: https://github.com/swicg/geosocial

#Geosocial #GeosocialTF #SWICG

Hello @herebox

thanks for your note re. https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues/582#issuecomment-2557475815

Attending todays Geosocial Taskforce Meeting :)

et al
https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/socialcg/calendar/

#ActivityPub #geo #geosocial

#ActivityPub #Place
reminder :)

Geosocial Task Force Call
https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/ed630a3d-7581-4053-9978-75949ad42f2a/20250109T130000/

Meeting Jan 9th

#geo #geosocial #osm #map

Finally online:

> Dunkel, A., Burghardt, D. & Gugulica, M. #Generative #Text-to-#Image #Diffusion for Automated #Map Production Based on #Geosocial #Media #Data. KN J. Cartogr. Geogr. Inf. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42489-024-00159-9

Check the Supplementary Information, where I show in three #Jupyter #Notebooks how to automatically generate images using #Python and #Stable #Diffusion with an #API.