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   Ian Wagner (ianthetechie@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 22:32:14 JST Ian Wagner

   • obrhoff

   @obrhoff yeah im a huge fan! Also a very long time Foursquare user.

   IMO the best thing we can do short term is mobilize mappers to verify (or not) these places in OSM :)

   Longer term I’d love to see a similar location game for verifying and adding POIs in OSM.

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     Josteglitz 🌱💚 (josteglitz@troet.cafe)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 17:07:37 JST Josteglitz 🌱💚

     • obrhoff

     @obrhoff
     What exactly do you want to build that's new?

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     crossgolf_rebel@moppels.bar's status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 19:03:40 JST crossgolf_rebel

     • obrhoff

     @obrhoff@chaos.social I don't see why I should help another company to broaden its business base and earn money with my work.
     
     If so, then only with OSM

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     Daniel (djh@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 20:44:52 JST Daniel

     • obrhoff

     @obrhoff The ActivityStream spec has a (very limited) Place object for very basic geo integration into the fediverse

     https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#places

     Unfortunately on the Mastodon side there seems to be resistance to implement anything geo related; various tickets, here are just some

     https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/281

     https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29002

     If you don't mind about participating networks like Mastodon not making use of it, there's nothing stopping you from sending geo data.

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     Daniel (djh@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 21:13:47 JST Daniel

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     • obrhoff

     @obrhoff and from a while ago: https://chaos.social/@djh/111937041846184707

     If you want to go down that route I can recommend coming by the Berlin OpenStreetMap meetup or even giving a lightning talk at GeomobBER.

     I can connect you to both and always happy to talk geo 🤓 I think the intersection of geo x fediverse is underserved for sure.

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     Daniel (djh@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 22:20:05 JST Daniel

     • obrhoff

     @obrhoff Ha! Sure it's more about the geo x fediverse intersection and what could be! 🙂

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     Daniel (djh@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 22:32:13 JST Daniel

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     • obrhoff
     • Every Door OSM Editor
     • Ilya Zverev

     @ianthetechie @obrhoff @everydoor @zverik I believe the more interesting question is not technical but how can we build something that incentivizes the less nerdy folks to contribute to free and open geo data and/or the fediverse.

     With nerdy apps such as StreetComplete or EveryDoor, or Mastodon or Pixelfed, we're still not getting the incentives working as e.g. Meta does: Most companies want an Instagram or Facebook account, simply because it's good for their business.

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     Ian Wagner (ianthetechie@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 22:32:14 JST Ian Wagner

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     • obrhoff
     • Every Door OSM Editor
     • Ilya Zverev

     @obrhoff as for the “how” part, @everydoor is the best mobile POI editor I know. But there are two open questions:

     1. How to find places that need verification.
     2. How to mark a place as “validated.”

     Maybe we could propose a Foursquare reference tag in OSM for correlation? A Foursquare place with an OSM place having a correlation ID AND a check data means an OSM mapper verified it.

     Then we could build a (web based for now?) tool to help mappers find places to check.

     Thoughts @zverik?