I just checked. Pixelfed already implements the location property. It's contained in the ActivityPub objects and shown on its webpage. So it's literally already there.
On what I might agree, that it's hard to determine what the Fediverse is capable of. As a technically inclined guy, I can just look at the raw data and form opinions. So my opinion "anything" is probably not what most people experience.
Btw, #normalization of #georeference|s is not trivial, because it requires techniques called #InstanceMatching.
It's an entire field of ongoing research.
A search for one of the #Berlin|s should be able to come up with
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People who want to use exact #georeferencing in a posting should have a way to do so, for example for offline events or to describe #geospatial (or #marsian) features.
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I take it for granted that users must be able to decide upon the precision of the #geocoding they use for their postings.
And that they must also be able to decide upon the geogaphic range of search when they lookup #georef|erenced postings.
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The location property of the #ActivityVocabulary does not only support exact locations but also areas in the sense that it allows for ›logical locations‹.
A logical location could be ›near Berlin«, but also a #geocode with reduced precision.
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Relax, no one is seeking to re-invent any wheel.
This thread is more about usability than it is about implementation.
No one can make use of #semantic properties in a vocabulary as long as they do not show up in frontends.
So, rather than deter consideration, let's keep the dialogue going.
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After some testing, it would be worth to consider #geocoding of postings as a #FeatureRequest to #Fediverse developers, preferably not as #hashtag but as a separate property of postings, like #ContentWarning:
CW is implemented using the #abstract property of #ActivityPub.
To create a CW when boosting a #Friendica posting on #Mastodon, the author uses [abstract] markup in the Friendica posting.
Similar may be possible for #geocode|s.
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