Do you know of a community that could use their own Federated mapping server? Please DM me.
In six weeks, I've made TONS of progress on Atlas Maps, and I'm confident with real people using it in the field.
So I spent this morning reaching out to a handful of integrators and consultants, but I can't find everyone.
Please help me reach out to the activists, builders, and organizers you know who need to map local events in their communities.
Who should I contact next?
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The Nexus of Privacy
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in reply to The Nexus of Privacy • • •Yes. Both of these are on my radar -- particularly Gancio, because it would also help out the #Bandwagon project.
Basically, everything is #ActivityPub, so we should just be able to crawl other sites for the posts they publish. It may take a little work to discover posts and to massage them into the right format (Mobilizon's address formats make me sad) but all the plumbing is already there.
Tanguy β§ Herrmann
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in reply to Tanguy β§ Herrmann • • •Actually, I should take that back. Mobilizon's address format is fine. I'm just being cranky.
Mobilizon is doing something custom --because Activity Vocabulary doesn't define a standard for addresses.
So, Mobilizon is using schema.org definitions instead, which are probably the next best thing.
In general, address formatting *anything* is a hot mess. Every different organization uses something almost the same but slightly different from everyone else.
Helge
in reply to Ben Pate π€π» • • •Are you trying to be an interoperability problem creating jokster?
Also UNCHAIN THE BUFFALO. If I was in college, I would now lobby to steal UC Boulder's mascot, so I get something cute to cuddle.
Atlas Demo -
atlasdemo.emissary.socialBen Pate π€π»
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There's apparently a whole security apparatus around "Ralphie" the Buffalo. Even her handlers don't exactly know where she lives. I think the Air Force Academy kidnapped her once, so they instituted James Bond level security: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralphie_β¦
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As for the Not type - you're right, it should be a single value (ActivityPub spec be damned).
Anyway, It's fixed on the demo site now. Check out this awesome commit :) github.com/EmissarySocial/atlaβ¦
ActivityPub: "type" should not be an array Β· EmissarySocial/atlas@62063dd
GitHubHelge
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in reply to Helge • • •@helge I will never understand how "University of Colorado, Boulder" becomes "CU Boulder". It's just weird.
But it's not the weirdest thing going on in Boulder, and I won't get dragged into the big-endian, little-endian debate. :)
Michal Ε pondr
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in reply to Michal Ε pondr • • •@michal That would be awesome. I'm putting the base tech out there, but probably can't develop a full Foursquare on my own. I'm hoping some others can jump in the fire with me to take this further.
If you know anyone who's good with HTML, Javascript, and basic data modelling, I'd love to get their help!
abeorch
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Yes, it would. There's two aspects to this:
General ActivityPub Interop
This *should* work with Friendica now, but I have a task on the project board to verify and tweak as necessary.
Building Into Friendica
I don't know its code base, but there's no reason Friendica couldn't do this, but it would take some work. This uses features that (I think) only Emissary has at the moment: search queries that natively implement ActivityPub actors, and a bunch of geospatial code, too.
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Yes. At the end of the day, the Fediverse is better because all these different projects can work together seamlessly. There canβt be one ΓΌber system that does everything β but many, many different things that absolutely crush their own little niches.
abeorch
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