The subtitle icons themselves function as buttons, which re-direct to a note that is generated via a template containing a geomap widget, and the coordinates as the note title, stored when either of the two ViewToolbar buttons is pressed.
Now the subtitle—in addition to showing the timestamps—contains a location pin icon for the origin GPS coordinates, and a globe icon for the last modified version GPS coordinates.
These are set manually, just to keep things more intentional and optimized, via two new ViewToolbar buttons: fetch current coordinates (for the most recent coordinates) … and set created coordinates, which will populate fields for a tiddler's origin coords.
In der U-Bahn in Madrid findet mein Smartphone immer die aktuelle Position. GPS dürfte da nicht funktionieren. Wird die Position dann lediglich anhand von WLAN-Signalen bestimmt?
"In space, satellites deviated from their trajectories due to the changes in air density caused by the sudden heating triggered by the energetic processes. As a result, satellite trackers on the ground were unable to ascertain satellite positions and determine collision risk. NASA experts, at the same time, were trying to determine the risk to the astronauts and decide on emergency measures."
That sounds bad.
Link: https://www.space.com/astronomy/earth/the-us-isnt-prepared-for-a-big-solar-storm-exercise-finds
Again the mapping gives me magical powers I didn't know I had 
I swear I didn't run on water, nor did I fly above the river 
I don't know if the app isn't tracking the GPS signal properly anymore or if the #GPS signal quality has degraded (could it mean that we don't use #Starlink anymore ? That would be good news!)
GPS: 25 Jahre auch zivil ungestört / 25 years also undisturbed in civilian life https://geoobserver.de/2025/05/07/gps-25-jahre-auch-zivil-ungestoert/ #gps #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT
Groundspeak celebrates 25 years of #Geocaching… with their own, edited, commercialised whitewashed history.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040129232636/http://geocaching.gpsgames.org/history/ lists some parts of history they’d like to forget or which they may even censor people for. (At least they got the #GPS Blue Switch Day right.)
Unfortunately, #Navicache and #GPSgames are now defunct and I never managed to find @radioscout ’s GE caches. Even the #Opencaching network, while historically strong, never was able to get into users’ minds especially after Groundspeak made it into a mainstream-ish hobby (to get more money), let alone #Terracaching. They did try again to subsume the much older #Letterboxing but it also persists independently. The #xkcd #GeoHashing activity levels are also rather low these days, unfortunately. See wp.inc (or wp.pm) for quite the list of known #waypoint-like præficēs (contributions welcome) and what became of them… although almost nobody laments the loss of opencaching.com (which was even less open than the CC-BY-NC-SA Opencaching Network). I did have quite some fun with #GeoDashing and #GeoVexilla while it lasted, though never managed #Shutterspot nor even looked at #GeoGolf.
Meanwhile, Groundspeak has not only hidden their brands of #Hitchhikers (#Travelbug and #Geocoin) on the ISS but also a cache, which obviously cannot be true as it’s not even geostationary. At least #GeoKrety got a revival recently.
Groundspeak’s own (or maybe bought then EEE’d?) #Wherigo almost didn’t survive the end of the PocketPC era and, like their lab caches (now styled "adventure labs" in groups, with quite the lack of useful APIs), is dominated by people reverse-engineering them to get their found count into the ten-thousands. Their #Waymarking seems to be forgotten as well but I noticed dozens of new ones around ::1 in a granularity fine enough to compete with virtual munzees, so I guess some people still do use it. Many things are now hidden behind commercial smartphone äpps instead of being hackable (or at least scrapable; I remember getting #Expedia maps with #MOBAC for #CacheWolf; none of the other GPS Stash Hunt software I’ve seen has such a great database of waypoints as CW had…) and always requiring more mobile internet than is sensible (especially #Munzee is).
Have I forgotten anything other than the country-specific sites (like GA) I cannot comment on?
Ah. #BesserCacher ("better cacher"), a list of supposedly good caches. They changed their URL scheme from their own WPs to Groundspeak’s and completely lost entries. I think they’re gone. And #Extremcaching (similar but for really extreme expensive exhausting caches) which probably is still going but not really what I’m looking for in a hobby I use to balance all my computer-using (and the other balance hobby, music, singing and playing some instruments).
Anyway, contributions welcome!
Hach, die #DSGVO ist doch was tolles :)
Habe mir mit ihrer Hilfe über eine halbe Million Standorte meiner selbst aus den letzten 10 Jahren aus einem Handygame herausgeklagt ;)
Perfekte Daten für meinen #Dawarich Server :))
Es sind grundlegen dedupliziert mal 555407 Datensätze mit #GPS #Koordinaten und Timestamp.
Je viens d'installer l'application #MagicEarth (après avoir lu le post de @sebsauvage [https://framapiaf.org/@sebsauvage/114405027652376299]). Je suis agréablement surpris par cette application ! 
La fonction transport en commun est vraiment top, surtout quand on sait qu'il n'est pas facile de trouver une app sur #FDroid. 
Petit point à améliorer : l'aspect vélo 
, il ne prend pas encore en compte toutes les voies cyclables. Mais dans l'ensemble, c'est une belle découverte ! 
"Ich freue mich, heute ankündigen zu können, dass die Vereinigten Staaten die absichtliche Verschlechterung der für die Öffentlichkeit zugänglichen Signale des Global Positioning System (#GPS) ab heute um Mitternacht einstellen werden": Was wäre die heutige Welt ohne GPS?
Gestern vor 25 Jahren haben die #USA das GPS auch zur zivilen Nutzung freigegeben. Zu den technischen Hintergründen und Fragen der digitalen #Souveränität gibt es einen Übersichtsartikel bei #heise:
https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Vor-25-Jahren-Bill-Clinton-gibt-GPS-frei-10368686.html
Z tą technologią możesz zapomnieć o GPS. Nowe podejście do nawigacji zachwyca oryginalnością
#Poland #Polska #Mastodon #Fediverse #Ai #Technology #News #Feditech #Wiadomosci #Gps #Nawigacja #Technology
https://www.chip.pl/2025/05/alternatywa-dla-gps-swiatlo-dzwiek
Freitag: Xbox-Spiele & -Konsolen teurer, BSI-Beschwichtigung zur ePA-Sicherheit
Preiserhöhungen für Xbox-Produkte + Sicherheitslücken bei ePA + Apple-Niederlage bei App-Gebühren + Nanofolien mit Nachtsichtfunktion + 25 Jahre GPS-Freigabe
Heute vor 25 Jahren wurde die künstliche Verschlechterung ("selective availability") der GPS-Signale abgeschaltet. Damit war auch für zivile GPS-Empfänger eine Genauigkeit auf wenige Meter möglich.
Was folgte ist eine Revolution: Autonavis, Video-Drohnen, Geocaching, Free-Floating Sharing von Autos/Fahrrädern/Scootern und noch vieles mehr wäre ohne genaues GPS nicht möglich.
Danke, Bill Clinton! 
Vor 25 Jahren: Bill Clinton gibt GPS frei
Am 1. Mai 2000 entschied US-Präsident Bill Clinton, dass das zivile GPS-Signal nicht mehr ungenau gehalten werden dürfe und revolutionierte so die Navigation.
Am 1. Mai 2000 entschied US-Präsident Bill Clinton, dass das zivile GPS-Signal nicht mehr ungenau gehalten werden dürfe und revolutionierte so die Navigation. #GPS
Vor 25 Jahren: Bill Clinton gi...
25 years ago: Bill Clinton releases GPS
On 1 May 2000, US President Bill Clinton decided that the civilian GPS signal could no longer be kept inaccurate, thus revolutionizing navigation.
GPs warn a £290m funding gap threatens the future of NHS Scotland - BBC News
"the funding which GP practices receive for every patient has been eroded year after year against inflation since 2008"
Now add in the extra NI payments, too. That's the UK gov robbing Peter to pay Paul.
90% of patient contact is through GPs and *that's* why it's a part of the NHS you need to support first.
"We now leave #navigation to our #phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost." #JohnHarris
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/smartphone-apps-gps-mountain-rescues-rise
"#GPS has cut us off from a basic human skill. It’s no wonder #mountain #rescuers are being called out so often. [...] Between 2019 and 2024, the total number of #rescues had increased by 24%, and there was a marked jump among the 18 to 24 age group, among whom callouts almost doubled. [...] across #Britain, there is evidently a mounting problem about the gap between people’s urge to experience wild and open spaces, and their ability to cope when they actually get there. [...] research suggesting that “people with greater lifetime GPS experience have worse #spatialmemory during self-guided navigation”. [...] retested 3 years after the initial research, when they found that “greater GPS use since initial testing was associated with a steeper decline in hippocampal-dependent spatial memory”. The #hippocampus is the part of the brain that deals with navigation: among London taxi drivers, the need to memorise so many geographical details was found to cause it to increase in size. But here were findings that suggested the opposite: reliance on automated #directions reducing people’s capacity to navigate for themselves." #cartography
Thx #SophieBerrebi
Good morning. 
26 April 2025
Do you remember traveling with a paper map in hand? It feels like such a relic of the 20th century now. I still have a stack of those tucked away in a cabinet above my desk—just in case I ever need them again. Do gas stations along the road even sell those anymore? Back then, you had to study the map carefully before starting a trip and pull it out at every stop to stay on track. It wasn’t too challenging, but missing a turn could cause real headaches. Nowadays, cars come equipped with built-in navigation systems that guide you seamlessly from start to finish. And if your car doesn’t have one, your phone can easily step in and do the job. Oh, and let’s not forget my old Garmin GPS—it's been collecting dust on top of my desk cabinet for years now.
"Maps encourage boldness. They’re like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible." – Rebecca Solnit
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature # morning #flower #maps #gps
