blog! “Reverse Geocoding is Hard”

My wife and I run OpenBenches - a crowd-sourced database of nearly 40,000 memorial benches. Every bench is geo-tagged with a latitude and longitude. But how do you go from a string of digits to something human readable?

How do I turn -33.755780,150.603769 into "42 Wallaby Way, Sydney, Australia"?

Luckily, that's a (somewhat) solved …

Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/reverse-geocoding-is-hard/
⸻
#geolocation #geotagging #OpenBenches

Geotagging your posts is about to get much better

You can already add locations to your posts and explore them on web and mobile

Soon you'll be able to add any location, and easily mass update post locations

We're also working on an Activity extension spec for geotagging, so other projects can use this too! #geotagging #pixelfed

If you are interested in *where* I took a particular photograph on my website www.alexanderwild.com, click on “photo details” and you’ll get EXIF data and a little navigable map at the bottom.

I have been automatically geotagging my photos since about 2014, and am working through the older ones to add that information.