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Does anyone know #geocaching?

I'm mulling over the idea of creating ActivityPub powered #project network for ppl to be able to create "pages/fediverse presences" for some items they hide/place in the real world.

Items would have agendas set by owners, like travelling to Alaska (for example) and people could help the item get closer and closer and along the way interact with #fediverse-powered presences, adding images and comments

And it's #ActivityPub - you could subscribe to that.

Thoughts?

#fediverse #ActivityPub #project #geocaching

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Hraban (fiรซรฉ visuรซlle)
Hraban (fiรซรฉ visuรซlle)
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Interesting idea. My son loves geocaching (and itโ€™s one of the few causes you get a teenager to go for a walk), but the whole scene seems commercialized/centralized on one app/platform. An alternative would be nice.
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Brian Sharwood
Brian Sharwood
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@fiee Iโ€™m an avid Geocacher, and this is a cool idea. But, of all the various apps I use, geocaching seems probably the least money driven organization I use. Itโ€™s probably the subscription that gives me the most value per dollar.
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Oleg "Ole" R. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
Oleg "Ole" R. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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@Bsharwood @fiee Makes sense. I don't have the necessary knowledge to tackle the project of this capacity, but I'm willing to spend time and learn, if even for personal growth.

As for the specifics, I imagine it being a geocaching-lite thing, where people would primatily share physical access their created assets, either stationary, like caches, or migrant like TBs/GCs.

@Hraban (fiรซรฉ visuรซlle) @Brian Sharwood
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Paulio
Paulio
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interesting idea. Maybe account holders on your new system could create a "travel bug" by pinning a comment that has a name, a pic, link to the TB page on geocaching.com, and where they want the traveller to go. Then anyone could reply to those pinned comments to form threaded discussions, post pics and videos, give status updates, etc. You'd want to mark the physical object somehow with maybe a QR code linking to the Mastodon URL for the pinned post?
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Oleg "Ole" R. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
Oleg "Ole" R. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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@paulio marking is the tricky part, you'd ideally want to only immediate object holders to be able to post (via the encoded QR or similar) but it's a balance of how complex we want to have this be and whether ir not complexity would deter people altogether. Another thing a TB or an object would need to be big and secure enough to have the QR and for it to persist over time
@Paulio
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Paulio
Paulio
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honestly I haven't looked at the ActivityPub protocol either. Maybe studying how PixelFed does it - since over there a photo is an object, that could be like a TB.
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Oleg "Ole" R. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
Oleg "Ole" R. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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@paulio Yes, that makes sense in terms of architecture of the platform. What I was referring to - I would like only the current "holders" of a TB-like object to be able to add to the "object's history" log. Mayne also have public comments thread under each object for everyone to comment, too
@Paulio
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Paulio
Paulio
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I see what you mean, that's a challenging goal. The qr code on the TB would need to maybe have a param in the URL with a unique value, that authorizes the user to add entries to the holder-log. Nobody else can add to that particular log/thread except maybe the owner (creator).
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Paulio
Paulio
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I think it's a great idea. Pathtags are an example of trackables not related to geocaching.com. You could make yours work either way, as a whole new thing, or tied to travel bugs. I wonder if geocaching's API let's you read TB data too, to integrate into your db.
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Paulio
Paulio
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according to api.groundspeak.com/documentatโ€ฆ

Users are limited to 500 trackable discoveries per 24 hours per API license (500 discovered logs per user/license combination). If a user has surpassed the limit, the API will return a 403 (Forbidden) response.

Geocaching API

api.groundspeak.com
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Crystalwoods
Crystalwoods
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I would be interested. i geocache in northern Canada (near the Yukon border with B.C.), as well as other parts of Canada and the UK. Are you talking about advancing Travel Bugs, or other items too? I'm interested in anything geocache related, lol!
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Oleg "Ole" R. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
Oleg "Ole" R. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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@crystalwoods thats great! doesn't need to just be TBs / GCs, any durable item would do I think, then again TBs are attached to items as is. It's hard to really innovate haha!
@Crystalwoods

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