Just had another wow moment while checking https://mapstodon.space's timeline: so much rich and diverse content, in many different languages, with a fresh and spontaneous balance between on-topic and off-topic conversations, and nothing but good vibes all around!
Thanks to everyone for making our little corner of the internet friendlier and more interesting everyday :)
“Britain’s #housing offers the worst value for money of any advanced economy, combining high prices with old, cramped, poorly insulated buildings and long commutes…” 🏚️😪
I'm too familiar with our awful housing, but was surprised to learn that we have less floorspace than not only other Western European nations, but also Japan and central NYC 🤯
There are now over 11,000 followers to this M̶a̶s̶t̶o̶d̶o̶n̶ Mapstodon account! 😍
The future of mapping is maps controlled by the people for the people, not big corporations or governments.
The future of social media is social media controlled by the people for the people, not big corporations or governments.
Some months ago I posted a 🗺️ story I wrote about how we all carry a map inside. Little did I know this would get me my own personalised #SplashMap and that I would get invited to a podcast about maps! Maps! Thank you @geomob, thank you #mapstodon for hosting such a friendly community.
This is the podcast episode https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-219@stevenfeldman really made me think about why I did what I did... And if you want to tell me about your own inner map, please tell me all about it here 🙂
I like maps, because they lie.
Because they give no access to the vicious truth.
Because great-heartedly, good-naturedly
they spread before me a world
not of this world.
🆕 blog! “Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap”
I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spendi…
@Edent@edent_location This is such a cool project! 👏 I am sure the #OpenStreetMap and #Mapstodon folks are interested in your location sharing project and it could spark more ideas for geo-related use-cases built on top of ActivityPub 🎉