¶ ATgeo Experiments
Write ups of ATgeo experiments. Assume access to a Gazetteer backend, and using the Lexicon Community Geo Lexicon.
¶ Markers App
An application and initial geo appview that lets people annotate existing ATproto posts with geo information.
¶ Marker Lexicon
The goal of the Marker Lexicon is to annotate or add geo data to existing AT URI records. It's a very thin wrapper mostly meant to be used as a proof of concept to add geo data to the network, without having to create Lexicons that are geo-native ahead of time.
- name/label? (optional? -- can use this to make just labeled markers as the simplest element)
- geo lexicon field - venue OR lat/long OR address? (insert geo lexicon definition here)
- link to existing ATproto record (optional)
¶ Record Support
Records to support out of the box:
- Bsky posts
- (bsky images?)
- (bsky videos?)
- Whtwind blog
Will just be bsky link and/or at://
Visual treatment for display on the map is the main unique thing? e.g. hover on display bsky post / image / video play, whtwnd icon and first NN characters.
Can also display SmokeSignal events (native support) on the map.
Instructions for devs to do a PR to add support for display / interaction in "mark" mode.
¶ App
The home page is a map view showing the last N markers + native geo items (so: we're running a backend service that fetches markers + records with native geo lexicon support).
You can login via OAuth and get access to:
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Creating a new marker
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Listing your markers
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Deleting your markers
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Making "maps" which are collections of markers (e.g. Places that serve great Lahksa in Vancouver, Places I took Pictures Last Week, etc)
- we may need to do this as a complete example / purpose --> make markers of things and collect them on a map
¶ Creating a New Marker
This is where we can test a "location" widget.
Start with name/label to bare marker.
Location look up -- type in address, type in name, select from auto complete.
Later: scroll a map and drop a marker.
Then add support for other records -- which will just be paste in the link, maybe fetch content to show it inline.
¶ Ideas
Non prioritized other ideas 
- choose style / image / emoji / colour of marker
- Liking markers and/or a like happening on the item it contains?
- Search markers (I guess this appview style aggregation?)
¶ Privacy & Security Questions
- Is there a permissions model to control who is authorized to annotate a post/object?
- Might markers have similar semantics to Quote posts and being able to detatch posts from markers?