owntracks / owntracks

OwnTracks
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Consider a 'checkin' message schema #14

Open CloCkWeRX opened 8 years ago

CloCkWeRX commented 8 years ago

As a user, I want to sometimes share my exact location (a point of interest).

Lat/Lon may not be accurate enough for multiple level buildings, or large indoor spaces (a mall)

If I could publish from my Owntracks client:

I chose location_href as a generic URL, but would imagine popular data sources could include things like an Openstreetmap API lookup for a POI, or similar from a Google geocoding result.

The initial use case is 'share location more precisely', but it would enable things like:

CloCkWeRX commented 8 years ago

An alternative to this may also be to enhance 'waypoint' behaviour in the clients to make it a lot easier to add these and broadcast 'enter' events

CloCkWeRX commented 8 years ago

More context: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/CloCkWeRX/diary/39928 (perhaps these are better as a fork of osmabd/owntracks mixed together, but would love to hear your thoughts on an open and extensible way to do some of these things)