Microsyntax for location

[evanp]

"As an ActivityPub user, I want to include microsyntax in my posts to identify locations, so that I can experiment with geosocial features without server or client support."

[evanp]

One possibility is the machine tag format: https://www.flickr.com/groups/51035612836@N01/discuss/72157594497877875/

[evanp]

Another option is the "L:" prefix, which was defined by microsyntax.org (now offline)

[travisfw]

I want to put forth the option of Open Location Codes (OLC) aka Plus Codes as essentially geo hashtags. They have clear recognizable semantics (and even a regular expression, if you want "two problems").
Plenty of criticism for OLC is valid, but much of it applies to latlng as well.

I have my own wish list of features (top 2: not having odd shaped rectangles near the poles, and being able to easily talk about large regions) but when I went shopping for an extant system, OLC was the best I found.

[TallTed]

FWIW, at least some of microsyntax.org is on the wayback machine. I couldn't quickly find their definition of L:, but maybe someone familiar with the site can dig deeper.