Boats in the Morning

Small boats moored in #Brixham #Harbour

#Canon #boats #dawn #Darktable
#Pluscode: 9FWP+XX4 Brixham
#What3words ///recount.impulsive.dummy

Sherwell Park (a.k.a. Pretty Park) #Torquay #Torbay

Blackview BL5000 ƒ/1.75 1/1126 3.768 mm ISO103

Location #Pluscode FF92+2QM Torquay #What3words ///crunch.steamed.rebounded

#phonephotography

Bluebell field in front of the Tower at Cotehele House (#NationalTrust) #Cornwall

#PhonePhotography

Location: #Pluscode FQWF+9HQ Callington #What3words ///willpower.insolvent.hears

Sunny Torbay
The view from Daddyhole Plain, #Torquay #torbay
#phonephotography #snapseed
Location: #Pluscode FF4P+8F9 Torquay #what3words ///rise.export.king

Ilsham Cove this afternoon looking positively Mediterranean.
#Torbay #phonephotography #snapseed
Location: #Pluscode FG66+3HR Torquay #what3words ///woof.shelf.goal

Ilsham Cove this afternoon looking positively Mediterranean.
#Torbay #phonephotography #snapseed
Location: #Pluscode FG66+64P Torquay #what3words ///plug.roofs.bricks

Exploring #plusCode to encode geographical locations, but in an easier and more memorable fashion than #GPS lat/long numbers!

https://glaforge.dev/posts/2023/03/28/exploring-open-location-code/

The article shows a #groovylang script to play with the Open Location Code #java library.

"Torquay Rocks!"

A rocky part of the shore at Torre Abbey Sands / Corbyn Head. Taken with a Blackview BL5000 (Android Phone) - RAW file processed in #Darktable

ƒ/1.75 1/397 3.768 mm ISO112

Location - #Pluscode: FF55+FV5 Torquay - #What3words: ///tamed.output.pulled

#Torquay #Torbay #Sea #Rocks

"Torquay Rocks!"

A rocky part of the shore at Torre Abbey Sands / Corbyn Head. Taken with a Blackview BL5000 (Android Phone) - RAW file processed in #Darktable

ƒ/1.75 1/397 3.768 mm ISO112

Location - #Pluscode: FF55+FV5 Torquay - #What3words: ///tamed.output.pulled

#Torquay #Torbay #Sea #Rocks

"London Bridge" and the Milestones - #Torquay #Torbay #devon

Blackview BL5000 (Android Phone) - ƒ/1.75 1/1383 3.768 mm ISO114

Taken from Haldon Pier, Torquay Harbour.
#Pluscode: FF4F+V23 Torquay #what3words: ///oath.risk.robe

#Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/p/PaulHutchinson/541312999224499894

"London Bridge" and the Milestones - #Torquay #Torbay #devon

Blackview BL5000 (Android Phone) - ƒ/1.75 1/1383 3.768 mm ISO114

Taken from Haldon Pier, Torquay Harbour.
#Pluscode: FF4F+V23 Torquay #what3words: ///oath.risk.robe

#Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/p/PaulHutchinson/541312999224499894

📶 Gibt es hier #CBFunk-Menschen im Gebiet #QTH·JO62 bzw #OLC·9F4M0000+?

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🏷️ #CitizenBand #QTH #Maidenhead #JO62 #CiBi #27Mhz #Pluscode #OpenLocationCode

Show off your favorite locations via @locationlabels !

#GeoHashtags #LocationLabels

Already start following the group to keep in touch, expect a more complete writeup #soon!

The idea is to set up a community that popularizes the idea of tagging location related things with #LocationLabels (#geo + the first 6 digits of your #PlusCode #OLC, tool available at https://whenwhere.cf) so you can start following labels around you and discover new things, activities and friends, and figure out things to do and people to meet when you go to new places!

For the planned writeup, please send your questions about this my way and invite people to join the community!

Wondering if there's any potential for overlap between Open Location Codes (Plus codes) and ActivityPub. Plus codes allow you to do a pretty simple "onion peel" search for things progressively further out from a specific location, and I wonder how that could be used with a federated service.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code

#ActivityPub #PlusCode

Some time ago I tried fixing a problem the hard way and found a much easier way to do the same thing.

We are living in a world where we talk more with people on the other side of the world than people nearby.

Yet we are rightfully worried about things that give away where we are. We cannot really engage with social media that will dox us.

So I was playing around with #PlusCodes. They have this funny property that they are layered: every two digits you get a level deeper, and you can cut off the first part to have a shorter code that still tells a place in your neighborhood.

OR you cut of the last part to describe a bigger #region.

I found out that if you cut it to six digits, you get a region that is about the size of a village or a city neighborhood that is #walkable, without giving any data that actually doxes you.

I implemented this on https://whenwhere.cf (the big code at the top is your actual exact location in #PlusCode format, be careful about giving that to other people! the thing you need is the #geo something tag)

You can use this hashtag to talk about rough locations, and because it's just a hashtag, you don't need complicated stuff to figure out if stuff happens nearby to you. Also you can easily figure out the #hashtags of #neighborhoods around it.

We can probably use this together with a.gup.pe groups to do things like comment about nice nature, set up local trades and similar stuff that needs #location awareness.

Can you help me give this system a nice and memorable name, and spread awareness and usage?

We can probably add four digit or even two digit code tags for the early days to make it easier to find people in a much wider region...

And if someone is around #geo8ccgqv #geo8ccg #geo8c #lisbon, maybe we should meet up! (I recommend to add name based tags to increase reach for people who look for places by name of course)

#GeoHashtags #SuggestABetterName

Bridgekeepers hut on the #Crinan #Canal at Bellanoch.

#iPhone #Reflections #Water #Darktable
Location: 38km south of Oban. #Pluscode: 3FF9+Q7W Lochgilphead. #What3words: ///asterisk.tops.poetic

Crathes Castle

A sunny day at Crathes Castle, #Aberdeenshire (2022-06-09)

#iPhone #Scotland #Castle #Darktable
#Location: 22km SSE of Aberdeen. #Pluscode: 3H66+G3F Banchory. #What3words: ///tools.elections.swept

The Big Thistle

... on Market Street, #Edinburgh

#iPhone SE 3rd Gen.

#Pluscode: XR26+C5R Edinburgh
#What3words: ///sprint.nest.gossip

#PublicArt #Scotland #Darktable

Castle Haven - A small bay by Dunnottar Castle

#iPhone SE (3rd Gen) f/1.8 1/2088s ISO 32

Location: 2km South of Stonehaven
#Pluscode: WRW2+FHV Stonehaven
#what3words: ///upper.still.automatic

#coast #Scotland #Darktable

Also on my #Pixelfed Account -> https://pixelfed.social/p/PaulHutchinson/498118223412357834

I like to add Location information to my #photography posts - but I wonder what is the preferred system:

1. #Pluscode (Google but Open source)
2. #What3words (Proprietary but free for personal use)
3. Lat.&Long. (Complex and long - Poss.Transcription errors)
4. (Vague) Description of location.