🆕 blog! “Android now stops you sharing your location in photos”
My wife and I run OpenBenches. It's a niche little site which lets people share photos of memorial benches and their locations. Most modern phones embed a geolocation within the photo's metadata, so we use that information to put […]
Android now stops you sharing your location in photos My wife and I run OpenBenches. It's a niche little site which lets people share photos of memorial benches and their locations. Most modern...
#/etc/ #android #geolocation #geotagging #google #OpenBenches
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UK map covered in thousands of markers.
## Android now stops you sharing your location in photos
shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/android-now...
My wife and I run OpenBenches. It's a niche little site which lets people share photos of memorial benches and their […]
[Original post on shkspr.mobi]
tagged some benches in Axminster today which (finally!) put me over 100 contributions on #openbenches 🎉
🆕 blog! “OpenBenches hits 40k”
Back in November 2023, our crowdsourced website of memorial benches reached 30,000 entries. At the start of March this year, I was delighted when long-time contributor jrbray1 added this gorgeous memorial, taking us up to 40,000 benches catalogued:
You can read […]
A graph with a fairly straight line going up from 0 benches in 2017 to 40000 benches in 2026.
## OpenBenches hits 40k
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/openbenches-hits-40k/
Back in November 2023, our crowdsourced website of memorial benches reached 30,000 entries. At the start of March this year, I was delighted when long-time contributor jrbray1 added […]
[Original post on shkspr.mobi]
[Thinking about #EMFcamp]
I'm looking forward to seeing lots of new friends there!
I might even bring some #OpenBenches stickers 🙂
RE: bot.openbenches.org/posts/69aac1e2-90db-8107...
Happy to announce that #OpenBenches is now back on the Fediverse using a self-hosted bot platform.
Just added my first contribution to #OpenBenches. I think there are a few more around our home, so I'll see what else can be added!
https://openbenches.org/bench/41478
Thanks @openbenches @Edent !
[Geocaching log from DanQ.me]
The family and I are staying in Lyneham for a couple of weeks following the flooding of our house (on the other side of Witney). This morning the younger geokid, the geopup, and I came out for a walk to find this geocache as well as to explore Milton-under-Wychwood […]
🆕 blog! “OpenBenches at FOSDEM”
At the recent FOSDEM, I did a very quick lightning talk about our OpenBenches project.
Sadly, despite the best efforts of the AV team, the video had a missing section. I took my own audio recording and zipkid took some photos, so I was able to recreate it using […]
Me standing on stage.
## OpenBenches at FOSDEM
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/openbenches-at-fosdem/
At the recent FOSDEM, I did a very quick lightning talk about our OpenBenches project.
Sadly, despite the best efforts of the AV team, the video had a missing section. I took my […]
[Original post on shkspr.mobi]
OpenBenches maps memorial benches, highlighting their emotional weight & community value. This HN discussion explored the project's organic success, potential expansions, and the broader impact of user-generated content. A unique blend of tech & tribute. #OpenBenches 1/6
🆕 blog! “OpenBenches 💖 OpenStreetMap”
When Liz and I created the OpenBenches website, it was just designed to be a fun way for people to record memorial benches. Since then things have got out of hand and we now have over thirty-nine thousand benches recorded!
Our plan was never to compete […]
OpenBenches website with an OSM link.
## OpenBenches 💖 OpenStreetMap
shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/openbenches...
When Liz and I created the OpenBenches website, it was just designed to be a fun way for people to record memorial benches. Since then things have got out of […]
[Original post on shkspr.mobi]
🆕 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 […]
I added another bench to openbenches.org
#OpenBenches #Burntwood
https://openbenches.org/bench/36544
@openbenches.org Is it okay to share benches on #OpenBenches that commemorate events, @Edent? I thought they could only be commemorative benches dedicated to people. I have shared benches that commemorate people in Malaga: https://openbenches.org/user/9107 So far I have not uploaded those […]
I did a talk about #OpenBenches at the ASYNC meetup last week.
A quick five minutes on what it does, how we built it, and which tech we're using.
youtu.be/-2ejpzPeBsw?...
I did a talk about #OpenBenches at the ASYNC meetup last week.
A quick five minutes on what it does, how we built it, and which tech we're using.
https://youtu.be/-2ejpzPeBsw?t=1614
Screenshot of a map of the world with large clusters of numbers.
A London part surrounded by 3D buildings.
Aerial view of the seaside, several bench markers on the promenade.
Some updates to #OpenBenches!
We've moved to OpenFreeMaps. This is *much* cheaper for us - and means we now have better looking maps, with 3D buildings, which are much faster to load.
Improved support for geolocation, satellite images, and custom icons […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
added (a slightly ridiculous number of) benches to #openbenches while on a walk around the village... I'd never noticed how many places Otterbourne has to sit down!
Thanks to @dalelane for joining the #OpenBenches club 😃
https://botsin.space/@openbenches/113166292307055438
