thanks for the reference to places.pub! It already exposes OSM places as AP objects in JS, so perhaps I won't have to reinvent too many parts of the wheel.
I had also read back then the article from Terence Eden (npub1x59…gect) - and since it was published around the same time that I had started working on GPSTracker it was the initial spark for the idea of a "federated Foursquare". But I'm not sure if he's done any progress on that after that article (or at least I couldn't find any repo with an MVP).
His approach is also a good one, he proposes using the (also nearly unused) `location` attribute on an AP object - and perhaps using both that and `h-adr` on the URL may make it compatible both with Indieweb and ActivityPub.
The elephant in the room then would just be support for location attributes on Mastodon I guess.
Fabio Manganiello
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2026-03-17 15:51:53 UTC
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