#indieweb 2017-01-02

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rhiaro hey aaronpk what api do you you use for your weather/temperature thing?
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rhiaro Also, do you know of a maps API that does nice smooth curves between two places, like how when people post a trip on facebook? I actually wanted this before I noticed facebook was doing it.
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GWG rhiaro: From the looks of it, wunderground?
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rhiaro heh, thanks GWG for being not too lazy to view source like me :)
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GWG I didn't. I was looking last week
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rhiaro ah, handy
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GWG I was looking at his atlas code for ideas for my location code.
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GWG He returns weather in there
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rhiaro Oh right. I'll check that out.
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rhiaro oooh that is useful
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rhiaro aaronpk++
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Loqi aaronpk has 447 karma in this channel (1167 overall)
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rhiaro (as usual)
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miklb Dark Sky has a pretty good API too
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chrisaldrich2 GWG++ for a fantastic first stab at Simple Location for WordPress https://github.com/dshanske/simple-location
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chrisaldrich2 I love the fact that it'll be able to take the geo data from old OwnYourGram and OwnYourCheckin posts and provide a map to go along with them (when I want to display one).
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GWG chrisaldrich2: Working on more improvements.
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GWG But there is still the public/private issue.
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chrisaldrich2 GWG: I tested the timezone and it appears to work as expected. But to be clear, one has to click the over ride and then choose the correct timezone from the drop down right? (ie, the geo data isn't used to auto set the timezone)
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GWG The geodata is used to auto-set the timezone.
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chrisaldrich2 It's unfortunate that WordPress's standard for geo data seems to default people's data to public if it's not specified https://codex.wordpress.org/Geodata
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GWG chrisaldrich2: I'm using Latitude: 31.77689 and Longitude: 35.234519 as my test coordinates for a different timezone if you want to check
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GWG I'm thinking of changing that display though.
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GWG The operative theory is if you set coordinates, you must want them to be seen.
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GWG The timezone isn't saving. Must have made an omission when I adjusted it. Fixing.
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chrisaldrich2 I notice that with no geo_address set, if I update the post, it automatically updates the geo_address toWestern Wall Plaza, Old City, Jerusalem, Jerusalem District
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GWG chrisaldrich2: Yes. As expected behavior.
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chrisaldrich2 yeah, it looks like I have to set the timezone manually, but it sets the proper time if I do. Even better if it uses the coordinates to do it automatically if I check a box though!
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GWG I just checked the code. You have to click the override box for it to save the timezone. I'm going to adjust that, since I changed the behavior to make it non-intuitive.
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GWG But the question is about whether a set location should be assumed to be public or private.
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chrisaldrich2 So, do we need to push micropub and clients like Ownyourgram, ownyourcheckin to add flags to preserve privacy of geodata for posts that go to wordpress?
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GWG chrisaldrich2: It is an area worth exploring, along with properties like draft posting, but no one has built it in yet.
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chrisaldrich2 I've been using an instagram plugin that has the ability to PESOS posts to WordPress and specifically because it allows me to set it as draft, pending, private, or just post it automatically.
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chrisaldrich2 For a plugin like Simple Location, I'd prefer that when enabling it, that it not presume I want old posts with geodata, but no explicit setting for public/private to treat all my old posts as private unless I set them manually to public.
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chrisaldrich2 If I remember things like OwnYourGram send geodata on photos (for example pictures at my house) even though I didn't set a location as visible on Instagram. Thus enabling Simple Location would find all that private data and make it immediately public when turning the plugin on.
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GWG I'm trying to figure out how to set it then
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chrisaldrich2 How many users (other than IndieWebbers) are likely to have geodata set in a WordPress install?
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GWG chrisaldrich2: I'm going to see what I can do to change the behavior. Making some minor tweaks to the timezone display.
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chrisaldrich2 I'm going through my tables and adding the appropriate metadata so that I can enable it on my production site. I don't think there are many posts where I'd prefer to keep the geolocation private as most of my posts to social media are uber-puclic to begin with.
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chrisaldrich2 Putting a highlighted note that specifies the privacy issues in the description of the plugin will also help to bring the potential issue to the surface regardless of the way you choose to handle the code. Then people at least have the opportunity to address it before turning it on.
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chrisaldrich2 those custom fields are all generally in postmeta right?
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chrisaldrich2 GWG: Here's another bizarre issue: the displayed map appears below JetPack's "Share This" functionality and above JetPack's "Related Posts"; I suspect you mean for it to show at the very bottom of the main-content right? (I'm testing it using the new Twenty Seventeen Theme).
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GWG I can raise the priority.
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GWG Jetpack's Share This must be higher
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chrisaldrich2 I've generally turned that stuff off on my production site, but happened to have it on on my test site.... suppose I ought to load everything up to see if anything else like that pops up. How does one change those priorities btw? I don't know that I've ever look at how to do that.
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aaronpk rhiaro: you mean like a smooth curve great circle line between two distant points?
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rhiaro yeah
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rhiaro I mean, a straight line would be fine too, I didn't find that either. A curve is a bit nicer though
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GWG I'll see about raising them a bit. But it's a line in the code. Not sure how to customize it to make every possible plugin happy, is the issue.
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rhiaro I know how to do it with google maps, but obviously I don't want to use google maps
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aaronpk hm yeah. I don't deal with that often because I usually have real GPS data between two points
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rhiaro I don't particularly want to do it with JS either if I can avoid it. But haven't found anything to generate a static map with a line on
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rhiaro Yeah i want to use it for future trip planning, rather than tracked location
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aaronpk Atlas static maps cheats by treating the map as a 2D plane
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aaronpk I'm sure i could dig up some code tho , it's just geometry
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KartikPrabhu if one is not interested in the actual route a straight line should be good
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aaronpk Curved lines look nicer tho
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KartikPrabhu treu
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aaronpk and are somewhat more realistic
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KartikPrabhu btw why did I lose my +v ?
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aaronpk huh no idea
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rhiaro Like right now I have two static maps of the two places next to each other: https://rhiaro.co.uk/2016/10/la-to-osaka But it would be better to show their relation to each other.
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KartikPrabhu my site was down for a bit a few days ago, maybe Loqi checked then and marked it as error
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rhiaro uh sometimes they take a while to load cos it's fetching lat/lon data from dbpedia. Need to cache that.
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aaronpk rhiaro: here we go http://williams.best.vwh.net/avform.htm#Intermediate
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chrisaldrich2 If it comes down to it, a great circle is the shortest arc between to places on the globe and is typically the path taken by most airplane flights
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aaronpk right, the trick is rendering that path in the webmercator projection
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aaronpk rhiaro: do you have an example of what a facebook post like that looks like?
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rhiaro lemme find one and screenshot
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KartikPrabhu does FB use the projected great circle or just some made up curve?
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aaronpk that's what i want to see
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rhiaro man they were everywhere when people were traveling for the holidays, and now I can't find any
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aaronpk how do you create one?
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aaronpk whoa facebook has a crazy number of different post types
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aaronpk https://media.aaronpk.com/Screen-Shot-2017-01-01-21-04-21.png
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rhiaro I have no idea. I think they might be auto created if you post "I'm on my way to x!" or something
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rhiaro I don't post, just read..
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aaronpk omg the facebook venues are *so bad*
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aaronpk huh i can't post planned travel
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rhiaro hm I can do 'traveling to' but it doesn't let me say where from
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rhiaro and just puts a pin in the 'to'
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KartikPrabhu try travelling from X to Y
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rhiaro there's no 'traveling from' in the drop down
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rhiaro maybe it needs to know where I am currently
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aaronpk how are you making it do the map at all?
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aaronpk ?? https://www.facebook.com/help/427780037309149
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rhiaro uuughhh I want to stop scrolling through facebook now, so many babies
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aaronpk aha https://media.aaronpk.com/Screen-Shot-2017-01-01-21-09-33.png
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rhiaro I clicked the little face 'what are you feeling/doing' and chose 'traveling from' in the drop down, then picked a country from the next dropdown
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aaronpk wow i did not know facebook had so many post types
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aaronpk man this is like old livejournal
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aaronpk whaat you can change the little icon indepdently of the text
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aaronpk this is crazy
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aaronpk shows you how often i use facebook
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aaronpk it still hasn't made a map for me tho
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rhiaro https://www.facebook.com/rhiaro/posts/10154111501670308
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rhiaro I just posted travelling to with no content
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rhiaro (that's a post that only aaronpk can see, for the logs)
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aaronpk huh
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rhiaro huh somehow I spent hawaii wrong and it still figured it out
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rhiaro technology man
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aaronpk no i think it autocompleted to a misspelling because facebook venues are *so bad*
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rhiaro I'm trying to find people's profiles who I know travelled, and scrolling back.. but n ot finding anything in their timelines
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rhiaro I might just have to grab one next time I'm not looking explicitly..
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rhiaro I get the feeling people aren't actively trying to create these, just that they're generated somehow
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aaronpk oh hey i got a map...
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aaronpk https://media.aaronpk.com/Screen-Shot-2017-01-01-21-15-41.png
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aaronpk aha
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aaronpk http://flowingdata.com/2011/05/11/how-to-map-connections-with-great-circles/
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aaronpk there's an R library for it
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aaronpk also great circle lines can sometimes look weird and i bet facebook is actually just drawing a fake circle http://dsgeek.com/2013/06/08/DrawingArcsonMaps.html
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rhiaro yeah I assumed the facebook ones were not mathmatically sound or anything
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rhiaro All I want is a curved line between to points on a 2D image
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aaronpk does this look like what you want? http://dsgeek.com/figures/2013.06/arcs_fig5.png
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rhiaro the fact that is is a map doesn't need to be relevant
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rhiaro yeah that's pretty much it
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rhiaro that's what the facebook ones look like
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aaronpk i think i can add that to the Atlas static maps code pretty easily then
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rhiaro oh sweet!
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KevinMarks Interpolating lat long isn't too hard
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rhiaro Well.. I'm just going to go for lunch, and then when I get back you'll be meeting my hacking goals for me
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aaronpk you can use the atlas code directly, you don't need to use it as an api
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KevinMarks Though if you don't want real great circle, just make an arc or bezier in svg
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rhiaro My need wasn't great enough to put more energy in than looking for code to do it for me at this point
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aaronpk well that will have to be a projcet for tomorrow cause i'm going to bed now
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rhiaro Since aaronpk exists, my laziness isn't a showstopper :D
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rhiaro That seems reasonable
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rhiaro hopefully this counts for your 100days
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rhiaro In other news, I fixed my food and acquire posts https://rhiaro.co.uk/eats https://rhiaro.co.uk/stuff
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rhiaro s/posts/feeds
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[nate] congrats!
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KevinMarks Something like <path d="M x1,y1 Q 0,0 x2,y2”≥
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KevinMarks The 0,0 in the middle is the xontro
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KevinMarks Control point - further away, more curved.
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[nate] question: I've been having fun with my newly set up and indieauth-compatible domain (nateparsons.com) and want to take it a step further, with https://nateparsons.com/signin.html. I've gotten as far as getting users (me) redirected to nateparsons.com/auth?code={}, but I'm not sure how to proceed from here. Is there an existing nginx module for this? Some python I can drop in?
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KevinMarks Or make it the average of x1 and x2 and still 0 for y
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bear [nate] - no nginx module that I know of
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bear if you grok Python you can look at how some of us have integrated indieauth login into our sites
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bear they should all be listed here...
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bear what is Python
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Loqi Python is a programming language and web server runtime environment used for many IndieWeb projects https://indieweb.org/Python
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[nate] oh nice. Yes, Python is my language of choice, I'm just now learning nginx
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bear There are a couple Flask examples and I think even a Django
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Zegnat Did anyone figure out the Facebook map generation yet, aaronpk, rhiaro? Or do you want me to give you a screenshot.
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Zegnat The trick to getting a From X to Y is to “check in” at your current location, and then add a “travelling to” activity on top.
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rhiaro Oh yes please if you have one handy
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Zegnat I just made one ;)
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rhiaro Ah right
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rhiaro Good detective work
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Zegnat I’ll crop it nicely and put it on the wiki, give me a minute
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Zegnat rhiaro, aaronpk: https://indieweb.org/File:is-traveling-to-x-from-y.png
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rhiaro Cheers!
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Zegnat They will not let me add points in between, as far as I know. Which is a shame. No way to generate the actual route.
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Loqi [indieweb] "By: Chris Aldrich" by Chris Aldrich on 2016-12-29 http://stream.boffosocko.com/2016/aaronpk-indiescripter-another-option-to-encourage-others-to-post-their
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aaronpk Whoa.
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aaronpk Zegnat++
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Another take on uploading screenshots to a Micropub Media Endpoint" https://seblog.nl/2017/01/02/2/screenshots
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aaronpk sebsel++ nice
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sebsel :D
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aaronpk oops your site doesn't find my author info!
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sebsel Oh.
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aaronpk you can follow 5.2 -> 7.4 to find mine https://indieweb.org/authorship
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sebsel thanks! I'll fix that
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sebsel And it doesn't know bookmarks too...
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sebsel I'm just using https://github.com/indieweb/php-comments I see.
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cweiske aaronpk's recursive fail :)
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cweiske https://github.com/indieweb/php-comments/issues/10
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aaronpk hah wait what
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cweiske your own lib can't parse your own comments
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aaronpk but... I use that library
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sebsel lol
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sebsel adding bookmarks seems like an easy fix, I can do that one.
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Zegnat My comment doesn’t show correctly either?
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cweiske maybe old mf2 parsing lib?
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Zegnat Also funny how it cut off my comment right before the answer. Maybe I should rethink how I write replies
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aaronpk ooh, i'm not using the part of php-comments that finds that property... because of the roundabout way comments get parsed for my site from webmention.io -> XRay -> my website
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aaronpk sebsel: it should be pretty trivial to add bookmark-of if you just copy this https://github.com/indieweb/php-comments/blob/master/src/indieweb/comments.php#L167
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sebsel I was doing that.
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sebsel Merging the PR is probably more work
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aaronpk ?
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sebsel but then the problem is that php-comments does not curl things itself now... right?
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sebsel but it now also renders your site as "author":{"name":false,"photo":false,"url":"\/"}
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sebsel It should at least give your url.
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aaronpk okay weird, i could have sworn it implemented the authorship algorithm correctly
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Zegnat aaronpk's reaction at least links correctly. Mine seems to not even link to my post?
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sebsel Yeah, that /-thingy might be my bad. I do pass the target-url into php-comments, but not in my microformats parser.
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aaronpk Zegnat: what's the URL to your post?
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Zegnat https://licit.li/586a5ec6b512a
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Loqi [Martijn van der Ven] Sebastiaan asks a localisation question: My workflow is nearly the same, but I choose the type ‘Voorziening’ (what’s that in English?) […] It is a Service....
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Zegnat Loqi, that did not need to end in an ellipsis, that was my whole post.
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Zegnat Apparently Loqi accepts my site again though!
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aaronpk ha! you must have hit the exact character count for Loqi to think he should truncate the post. Loqi's truncation could use some work
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aaronpk at least XRay gets your author right
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Zegnat Since the last slew of fixes, my mf2 has been completely parsable. Tested with XRay and pin13. And tried jkphl’s new parser https://micrometa.jkphl.is/
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sebsel oh my, I don't even store the target url, so my site has no idea where Zegnat's post is :/ how strange.
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sebsel But that's all because of relative url's and stuff.
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sebsel Now going to send mentions again, see what happens.
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sebsel meh, now it things Zegnat's post is on my site :')
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sebsel thinks
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sebsel Should we take this to dev?
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Zegnat If we are going to talk code instead of just general “look we have done comments”, then yes :)
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GWG Good morning, campers
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Zegnat Morning GWG!
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GWG How is the New Year treating your site?
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Zegnat Bad, I did not make my commitment
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@jkphl Published a new micrometa release w/ #JSONLD support and visually improved demo page https://micrometa.jkphl.is/ #100DaysOfOpenSource #indieweb (twitter.com/_/status/815933604589174784)
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GWG I made my commitment but it is still buggy. I do have to thank Chrisaldrich for giving me some valuable feedback after I asked him to try it.
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GWG He noticed some stuff I missed and had some usability feedback
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@jkphl Published a new micrometa release w/ #JSONLD support and visually improved demo page http://micrometa.jkphl.is #100DaysOfOpenSource #indieweb (twitter.com/_/status/815935030946041856)
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@voxpelli @gunnarr Lär t.ex. kunna interagera med https://voxpelli.com/social/ och andra profiler i @indiewebcamp-stil, så man slipper dagens monokultur (twitter.com/_/status/815936331989876736)
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@TerminalPixel Day 001 of #100DaysOfCode: Got embeds working on my #indieweb site. See https://grant.codes/likes for a nice example (twitter.com/_/status/815954940560556033)
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GWG If you reach your commitment, but it is buggy, did you meet it?
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@jgarber @AmeliasBrain @brad_frost Love it! Reminds me of this #indieweb post from @kartik_prabhu: https://kartikprabhu.com/articles/marginalia (twitter.com/_/status/815971660759236608)
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tantek GWG, depends, are you using it?
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GWG Tantek, yes
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snarfed also, all code has bugs :P
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chrisaldrich1 GWG gets bonus points because he's already got others using it too! ;)
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KevinMarks Slio quits? https://twitter.com/girlziplocked/status/815977425867829248
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GWG snarfed, I need to test better.
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snarfed testing++
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GWG Chrisaldrich1 did you look at the latest changes, you deserve props for useful feedback
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GWG snarfed, I still am unit test challenged and tend to do usage testing
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GWG snarfed, when this code is fixed, I will be testing it with Micropub
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snarfed new year's resolution, learn unit testing!
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miklb happy new year IndieWeb! Today's goal, flip the switch from jekyll to WP. Won't be pretty :-)
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@heibie @diplix für den #indieweb Freund interessant. https://twitter.com/kopfzeiler/status/815971445339721730 (twitter.com/_/status/815988144361312256)
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snarfed miklb++
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GWG snarfed, that and JS if I listen to the WordPress buzz
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tantek miklb++ go go go!
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miklb appreciates all of the encouragement
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snarfed oh cool, matt mullenweg plugged manton reece's http://micro.blog/ : https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/815974366374719488
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@photomatt Indie Microblogging: owning your short-form writing -- cool idea https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manton/indie-microblogging-owning-your-short-form-writing?ref=project_tweet (twitter.com/_/status/815974366374719488)
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snarfed [insert obligatory complaint that he should have possed]
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tantek snarfed, is there a github repo where we can file feature requests / patches to help that project support indieweb protocols? (obligatory attempt to ask a constructive question :) )
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snarfed tantek: wordpress?
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aaronpk i emailed manton this morning and he's interested in starting a HWC in Austin as well as supporting webmention and micropub :)
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miklb tantek I don't think micro.blog has a repo. But he is well aware of micropub & webmentions. References it in Kickstarter
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tantek aaronpk++
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snarfed ah
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tantek nice
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tantek well then, let's start that
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tantek what is micro.blog?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "micro.blog" yet. Would you like to create it?
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tantek go for it aaronpk and miklb, even just what you said above is a great stub start
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miklb micro.blog is an Indie Microblogging platform started by Manton Reece, with plans to support webmentions and micropub
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Loqi ok
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tantek linky linky!
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miklb micro.blog is <<< http://micro.blog
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miklb lol. I don't know Loqi wiki syntax obviously
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aaronpk eh i just edited the page directly :)
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KevinMarks1 if you make them a path, you can use this trick: https://css-tricks.com/svg-line-animation-works/
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aaronpk ha whoa
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@mjUX If you want to start; http://indieweb.org/event □ I'm goin to take a dab at some intractable Design. (twitter.com/_/status/816019279304949760)
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chrisaldrich2 miklb, I don't know if it'll help your migration, but I ran across this over the weekend: https://github.com/mAAdhaTTah/wordpress-github-sync
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miklb chrisaldrich2 thanks, I did look at it, still might play around with it, but solved my migration by writing a semi-custom xml file to import into WP.
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@aaronpk Day 13: Drawing curved lines on static maps #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100DaysOfCode https://twitter.com/aaronpk/status/816051898796998656/photo/1 (twitter.com/_/status/816051898796998656)
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GWG miklb: How is it going?
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miklb slow. adapting an html design to what I want in WP. Also got caught with a transient cache sticking so couldn't figure out why a loop wasn't working way it was supposed to.
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petermolnar miklb are you modifying an existing theme?
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petermolnar because that's always painful, in my experience
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miklb not a theme, but a straight HTML set of templates.
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Zegnat That post is probably my first person-mention, thanks aaronpk!
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aaronpk \o/
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miklb but using underscores with GWG's mf2 changes as base
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petermolnar underscores as theme, not as underscore.js, right?
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Zegnat Woops, no, it is probably my second. So... 2 mentions since 2015-07-29 ?!
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miklb petermolnar correct the automattic theme base
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Loqi [indieweb] "Reply to Manton Reece: This morning I launched the Kickstarter project for Micro.blog. Really happy with the response. Thank you, everyone!" by Chris Aldrich on 2017-01-02 http://boffosocko.com/2017/01/02/reply-to-manton-reece-this-morning-i-launched-the-kickstarter-project-for-micro-blog/
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GWG chrisaldrich gets a lot of play in here
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miklb that's an understatement
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miklb didn't realize how rusty my front-end skills were until I had to start debugging specificity
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chrisaldrich2 ;)
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GWG chrisaldrich2: Have a few minutes?
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chrisaldrich2 a couple, what's up?
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chrisaldrich2 Lot's of new fields in simple location now.... I like the idea of altitude. I want to post from a plane now.
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GWG chrisaldrich2: I wanted your opinion of the changes.
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GWG You helped a lot last night.
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GWG chrisaldrich2: Does your phone record altitude?
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chrisaldrich2 I'm not sure if it does actually. I still hadn't figured out the issue with why my site wassnt running the js to get the location data. still hadn't been able to with the new changes as of this morning, but I also hadn't tried on my mobile again either.
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chrisaldrich2 I had an app that did indicate my altitude a year or two ago on a phone that's now 3 generations old, so I suspect my phone still should.
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GWG I haven't been anywhere of an altitude sufficient to wonder about that. But right now, that data is not used, just displayed and passed for future use. I want to try to use accuracy.
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chrisaldrich2 what values does accuracy take/use? the ui isn't specific
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GWG Accuracy in meters. As in, how close to the actual position is it?
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chrisaldrich2 If I remember most commercial GPS data is only accurate to 10-100 feet.
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GWG For example, my phone just returned 20M as the accuracy. My computer returns 5000M
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chrisaldrich2 I suspect you're trying to use it so one could indicate a neighborhood range without specifying one's particular home address (for example)
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chrisaldrich2 oh, you're actually taking in the devices's estimated accuracy...
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aaronpk altitude data is horribly inaccurate
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GWG chrisaldrich2: Yes, the geolocation API specification supports those fields, even if the device doesn't.
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GWG aaronpk: I haven't gotten any altitude data.
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GWG My phone has never returned anything of interest in that field.
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aaronpk it's basically only good for "yes you're in a plane" level accuracy
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aaronpk all phones will return the data tho
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aaronpk it's part of the GPS chip
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GWG aaronpk: I couldn't even get it to work on a plane.
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chrisaldrich2 I've got a device or two that I could use for manual input of altitude. Depending on the GPS service, the altitude could be good/bad. Most commercial phones specifically do a bad job.
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aaronpk yeah it very much depends on the phone and the plane
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aaronpk and your location wtihin the plane (window seats work better, mostly impossible near the middle)
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chrisaldrich2 some airplane headsets have screens which give altitude, speed and heading along with ETAs that are relatively accurate
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aaronpk sometimes the in-flight wifi has that data too!
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aaronpk even without paying
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GWG chrisaldrich2: That is why I might open up the fields in the future. But for now, it is informational.
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chrisaldrich2 If I can get over the JS issue I can do some more thorough testing, but I'm supposed to be joining some friends to watch what's left of the Rose Bowl game.
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GWG chrisaldrich2: Have fun. Your opinion is worth waiting on.
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aaronpk really old script for extracting the in-flight GPS and logging it https://github.com/aaronpk/GoGo-WiFi-to-Geoloqi/blob/master/gogo-to-geoloqi.rb#L11
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GWG aaronpk: I prefer JetBlue. Free wifi
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chrisaldrich2 Definitely smart to build that stuff in, particularly with things like trips, or apps which track athletic data for run/bike distances and rise/run data
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chrisaldrich2 Gets back to rhiaro's question about pseudo-flight path's in the last day or so... wouldn't it be nice to have the actual GPS flight path data for things like that?
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GWG chrisaldrich2: I track planes over my house.
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aaronpk oh yeah i've been meaning to hook up that API for my flights
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aaronpk tho i get reasonably good results with my iphone in planes as long as i have a window seat
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GWG aaronpk: I prefer an aisle. I prioritize comfort over GPS data collection
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aaronpk yeah i've been struggling with that too. lately i prefer the aisle especially on long flights, but that kills my chance of getting GPS
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aaronpk so hooking up the flight tracker API would solve that problem :)
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GWG aaronpk: Did I ever show you my setup?
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aaronpk for flight tracking?
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GWG For tracking planes, not flights I'm on.
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chrisaldrich2 I actually used the Sears Tower last night as dummy data for testing, and I did kind of wish I had altitude so I could show I was at the top of the building instead of the bottom.
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aaronpk ah the radio device? /me moves this to #indiechat
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chrisaldrich2 GWG: I'll try to catch you later this evening...
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GWG chrisaldrich2: You know me. I'm around.
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