Some time ago I tried fixing a problem the hard way and found a much easier way to do the same thing.

We are living in a world where we talk more with people on the other side of the world than people nearby.

Yet we are rightfully worried about things that give away where we are. We cannot really engage with social media that will dox us.

So I was playing around with #PlusCodes. They have this funny property that they are layered: every two digits you get a level deeper, and you can cut off the first part to have a shorter code that still tells a place in your neighborhood.

OR you cut of the last part to describe a bigger #region.

I found out that if you cut it to six digits, you get a region that is about the size of a village or a city neighborhood that is #walkable, without giving any data that actually doxes you.

I implemented this on https://whenwhere.cf (the big code at the top is your actual exact location in #PlusCode format, be careful about giving that to other people! the thing you need is the #geo something tag)

You can use this hashtag to talk about rough locations, and because it's just a hashtag, you don't need complicated stuff to figure out if stuff happens nearby to you. Also you can easily figure out the #hashtags of #neighborhoods around it.

We can probably use this together with a.gup.pe groups to do things like comment about nice nature, set up local trades and similar stuff that needs #location awareness.

Can you help me give this system a nice and memorable name, and spread awareness and usage?

We can probably add four digit or even two digit code tags for the early days to make it easier to find people in a much wider region...

And if someone is around #geo8ccgqv #geo8ccg #geo8c #lisbon, maybe we should meet up! (I recommend to add name based tags to increase reach for people who look for places by name of course)

#GeoHashtags #SuggestABetterName