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   Osma A (osma@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 14:44:00 JST Osma A

   What does it mean if an #ActivityPub message contains a type: Place with lat/lon coordinates and an accuracy attribute of 94.5 as per the spec example? There's a 5.5% probability that the location is wrong? Just a bit off, or completely, wrong-planet off? Perhaps the object is not a Place at all?
   https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-accuracy

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 14:43:59 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @osma https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues/469

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     Osma A (osma@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 23:14:53 JST Osma A

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan
     Thanks! Left a comment there.

     A Place is not described as, nor does irs naming imply, a Coordinate. A Place could be as large as a football field, shopping malli, university campus, or a city. That has implications to what radius could mean - it's not necessary an error estimate.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 23:14:53 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @osma if we want to represent a polygon, we should probably do that. Approximating one with a circle is probably a bad idea.