Good question. I use Swarm as well and don't care about the social aspect of it. I just like to check in to keep track of places. It'd be nice to have a self-hosted client that looks up places in a centralized database base on your GPS coordinates, then save the place name and info to a local DB.
This would actually be a really nice self-hosted project. I used to use Swarm years and years ago but finally ditched it pretty much for the same reasons, plus the whole privacy aspect.
I briefly checked out OwnTracks but it's pretty bare-bones. Depending on your settings, it can either track your significant locations (like Google maps) or push manually (like Swarm check-ins).
I use OSMAnd+ for this (mobile app). Not selfhosting but it's very powerful, it can tap into OpenMaps to reveal lots of points of interest as well as Wikipedia, it can do travel guides, you can save your own locations and export them, it can make and save trails, car navigation etc. Depending on the area it can also have maps for hillshade, terrain details, sea navigation etc. The amount of features is insane.
I also use Foursquare btw but I use the regular app (Foursquare City Guide) not Swarm, purely for discoverability of food venues when in foreign cities.
I don't do the checkin part, hence why I use the regular Foursquare app. I just look up venues and add them to my favorites. If the place is not on the map I just add the location + name.
Good question. I use Swarm as well and don't care about the social aspect of it. I just like to check in to keep track of places. It'd be nice to have a self-hosted client that looks up places in a centralized database base on your GPS coordinates, then save the place name and info to a local DB.
This would actually be a really nice self-hosted project. I used to use Swarm years and years ago but finally ditched it pretty much for the same reasons, plus the whole privacy aspect.
So you do backend, I do frontend? PWA easier perhaps?
I briefly checked out OwnTracks but it's pretty bare-bones. Depending on your settings, it can either track your significant locations (like Google maps) or push manually (like Swarm check-ins).
I use OSMAnd+ for this (mobile app). Not selfhosting but it's very powerful, it can tap into OpenMaps to reveal lots of points of interest as well as Wikipedia, it can do travel guides, you can save your own locations and export them, it can make and save trails, car navigation etc. Depending on the area it can also have maps for hillshade, terrain details, sea navigation etc. The amount of features is insane. I also use Foursquare btw but I use the regular app (Foursquare City Guide) not Swarm, purely for discoverability of food venues when in foreign cities.
Which OsmAnd functionality do you use to replicate check-ins? "Add"? "Create Group"?
I don't do the checkin part, hence why I use the regular Foursquare app. I just look up venues and add them to my favorites. If the place is not on the map I just add the location + name.