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I am an information hoarder and liked the Foursquare swarm app for checking into restaurants and other interesting places when I travel, because I love seeing the pins on the map of the places I have been and remembering places later. I have scripts running to download my check-ins and store them in a self hosted map.

But I obviously don’t need to keep giving them my location data. Are there any self hosted alternatives with that kind of international database of places?

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[–] a14o@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago

I don't know of such an alternative. A quick solution would be to use something like GeoNotes to take geolocated notes.

As far as a self-hosted solution goes, I'd just like to point out that you wouldn't need a self-hosted database of places. You could query Ouverture (or Google, OSM, etc.) for places near you, and you'd just need to store the check-in on your server with a basic API. This is an interesting problem, and not super hard to implement.