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Maps.fm: listen a podcast episode about that place on the map
Author : giuliomagnifico
Score : 69 points
Date : 2023-10-20 10:20 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (maps.fm)
(TXT) w3m dump (maps.fm)
| georgel wrote:
| How are you identifying location? Are you using the Podcasting
| 2.0 geolocation tags?
|
| For those curious: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-
| namespace/blob/m...
| janandonly wrote:
| I keep being surprised at how many good enhancements are part
| of the Podcasting 2.0 specs.
|
| The <podcast:value> gets (very understandably) a lot of
| attention.
|
| But <podcast:chapters>, <podcast:trailer> and
| <podcast:remoteItem> are very usefull as well.
| tony_cannistra wrote:
| This is a cool idea.
|
| It reminds me of an idea I had on a road trip once - a Google
| Maps-like driving directions app that would occasionally announce
| interesting facts about the places you're driving through. Things
| like pieces of natural or cultural history, or geology, etc.
| Would help to get to know the places one is passing through.
|
| I think someone made something similar, so I kinda gave up on it.
| navanchauhan wrote:
| Reminds me of that TBBT episode where Sheldon hacks the GPS:
| https://youtu.be/dCsYBacNfBw?si=CEjA-JgF9zHwL0tV&t=45
| kremi wrote:
| Very cool. When I was living in Paris I wanted to do something
| similar (but without the driving / directions part). I just
| liked walking randomly in the city and wished someone could
| tell me about all the interesting little bits of culture and
| history of the places I strolled past.
| dewey wrote:
| I was thinking of a similar thing when the AirPods came out.
| When they were new it felt like a nice bridging of the real /
| virtual worlds when it announced walking directions directly
| into your ear, or reading arriving messages to you. I thought
| it would be a cool idea to have some kind of trivia, facts
| being read to you while you move around. Kinda like AR but more
| audio-based.
| hentrep wrote:
| Reminds me of the hours I used to spend zooming around Google
| Maps when they had the Wikipedia overlay. I desperately miss that
| feature!
| smartbit wrote:
| Both Pocket Earth Maps & CityMaps2Go offer Wikipedia articles
| of local POI. Practical when you visit a town and have only a
| mobile device. Both offer downloading for offline usage.
| lmm wrote:
| OSMAnd also does this.
| EricRiese wrote:
| Y'all remember the Google Field Trip app from Niantic labs? You
| could set it up to pop up and read out local facts when you
| arrived at a new place.
| christiangenco wrote:
| Oh this is such a cool idea! It looks like there are several
| episodes by 99pi about my area that I haven't listened to yet.
|
| I'm unable to successfully navigate the interface on mobile
| though so I'll have to try when I'm back to my computer tomorrow.
| Because I only ever listen to podcasts on my phone it would be
| nice to have a better mobile interface.
| iagooar wrote:
| If you want to make the podcast listening experience even better,
| consider adding a proper podcast player to your site.
|
| For example, you could use https://github.com/podigee/podigee-
| podcast-player
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