Consider a 'checkin' message schema

CloCkWeRX commented 7 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:

location_url - A website or Openstreetmap location refered to by url
location.primary_title
msg/checkin.description
start/end date (optional) - maybe already covered by tst attribute
- additional_urls[] - other identifiers, like wikidata or similar

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:

Determine likely opening hours for a business
Show interesting information about your current location Etc

CloCkWeRX commented 7 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 7 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)

owntracks / owntracks

Consider a 'checkin' message schema #14