Maps.fm: listen a podcast episode about that place on the map

https://maps.fm/dl/783bbb

by giuliomagnifico • 3 years ago

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georgel• 3 years ago

How are you identifying location? Are you using the Podcasting 2.0 geolocation tags?

For those curious: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/m...

janandonly• 3 years ago

I keep being surprised at how many good enhancements are part of the Podcasting 2.0 specs.

The <podcast:value> gets (very understandably) a lot of attention.

But <podcast:chapters>, <podcast:trailer> and <podcast:remoteItem> are very usefull as well.

waynejparker11• 3 years ago

Yes, it's a mix of automated with human checking, which is important at this stage. A map raises the bar on the required accuracy. And yes, using the location:tag idea, with some other additions to the RSS feed.

tony_cannistra• 3 years ago

This is a cool idea.

It reminds me of an idea I had on a road trip once – a Google Maps-like driving directions app that would occasionally announce interesting facts about the places you're driving through. Things like pieces of natural or cultural history, or geology, etc. Would help to get to know the places one is passing through.

I think someone made something similar, so I kinda gave up on it.

navanchauhan• 3 years ago

Reminds me of that TBBT episode where Sheldon hacks the GPS: https://youtu.be/dCsYBacNfBw?si=CEjA-JgF9zHwL0tV&t=45

kremi• 3 years ago

Very cool. When I was living in Paris I wanted to do something similar (but without the driving / directions part). I just liked walking randomly in the city and wished someone could tell me about all the interesting little bits of culture and history of the places I strolled past.

leobg• 3 years ago

Could probably do it with ChatGPT. Take picture of building. Ask what it knows about it. Haven’t tried, but may work for some buildings. No GPS though.

dewey• 3 years ago

I was thinking of a similar thing when the AirPods came out. When they were new it felt like a nice bridging of the real / virtual worlds when it announced walking directions directly into your ear, or reading arriving messages to you. I thought it would be a cool idea to have some kind of trivia, facts being read to you while you move around. Kinda like AR but more audio-based.

waynejparker11• 3 years ago

there are some custom content versions, such as Autio, but our thought was to take advantage of all the free podcast episodes (the podcasters love it because it's another form of discovery and their audio plays exactly the same).

zikduruqe• 3 years ago

Sorta like this? https://4m3ric4.com

MoSattler• 3 years ago

What is this? It made me listening to a random Minnesota radio station where people talk about ghosts.

devilbunny• 3 years ago

GuideAlong is an app that sort of does this. But it only works on its given routes - not generically everywhere. It's not amazing, but the content is pretty fairly priced.

robbomacrae2• 3 years ago

This is pretty much exactly how I've attempted to make Summer AI app work. If I am missing anything from your vision please let me know!

hentrep• 3 years ago

Reminds me of the hours I used to spend zooming around Google Maps when they had the Wikipedia overlay. I desperately miss that feature!

smartbit• 3 years ago

Both Pocket Earth Maps & CityMaps2Go offer Wikipedia articles of local POI. Practical when you visit a town and have only a mobile device. Both offer downloading for offline usage.

lmm• 3 years ago

OSMAnd also does this.

geraldhh• 3 years ago

there is [0]

and you can get the wiki-overlay also from wikimedia itself [1] if you click "show nearby articles" in the bottom right, but idk how to link it properly.

[0] https://wikimap.wiki

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_National_Cemetery#/m...

EricRiese• 3 years ago

Y'all remember the Google Field Trip app from Niantic labs? You could set it up to pop up and read out local facts when you arrived at a new place.

christiangenco• 3 years ago

Oh this is such a cool idea! It looks like there are several episodes by 99pi about my area that I haven’t listened to yet.

I’m unable to successfully navigate the interface on mobile though so I’ll have to try when I’m back to my computer tomorrow. Because I only ever listen to podcasts on my phone it would be nice to have a better mobile interface.

waynejparker11• 3 years ago

thanks, and yes, the mobile interface needs work...

iagooar• 3 years ago

If you want to make the podcast listening experience even better, consider adding a proper podcast player to your site.

For example, you could use https://github.com/podigee/podigee-podcast-player

waynejparker11• 3 years ago

yes, that makes sense. How would we also do that the other way, adding a 'Maps' tab to the podcast player?

miguelxt• 3 years ago

Amazing idea. It would be nice to have a filter by language.

waynejparker11• 3 years ago

Yes, agreed. In the works.

kdwikzncba• 3 years ago

Have you heard "that's not a product, it's a feature"? That's what this is: a feature in a product. I love it, mind you, but if a lot of people like it too it'll be copied by Spotify.

waynejparker11• 3 years ago

thanks, well taken. This is so new that we think our expertise will be of value. Locating audio on the map, we've found, has lots of hidden challenges and we've learned a lot doing thousands of them...

waynejparker11• 3 years ago

we're having to cut back, as haven't gotten Maps.FM to revenue yet....if anyone has ideas on how to move this forward from a business standpoint please let me know. thanks, Wayne Parker, parker@maps.fm

froidpink• 3 years ago

Nice idea!

I found an error though. There's a podcast about the Camino de Costa Rica, a trail that goes from the Pacific to the Caribbean in Costa Rica. But the app has associated it to a street called Camino de Costa Rica in Chiclana, Spain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_de_Costa_Rica

waynejparker11• 3 years ago

Oh, good catch. That has been moved to Costa Rica, at Barra del Parismina. That's just one point for the trail....will be adding other ways to show the entire length. Thanks!

madcaptenor2• 3 years ago

This is cool! I'd love to see something similar for books, long-form articles, etc. - really anything I can listen to or read that helps to get a feeling for a place.

waynejparker11• 3 years ago

...so pulling the info from Wikipedia? And then translating text to audio also?

madcaptenor2• 3 years ago

I wasn't thinking text-to-audio, but I wouldn't object. Just something that tells me about all the books, articles, etc. that are set in place X.

Is Wikipedia a good source for this?

goodboyjojo• 3 years ago

this is pretty cool. thanks for sharing

brokenbyclouds2• 3 years ago

Fantastic idea. Minor issue is that when you tap on one of the flags, you get the podcast episode notes but you don't get the title of the podcast. Title needs to be prominent.

waynejparker11• 3 years ago

thank you, feedback very helpful....we found one example where the title wasn't appearing with the pin, and hopefully have fixed that.

brokenbyclouds2• 3 years ago

I might be misinterpreting what I'm seeing but I don't see titles on any of them. For instance, on one in southern California, the icon showing the podcast art makes it clear that the title of the podcast is Ridiculous History, but when I tap on it, I only see the episode title and have no other clue to tell me what podcast it actually is that this episode is part of.

Now that I'm describing it in more detail I think what I should have said initially is that I'm looking for the title of the podcast itself, not just the episode title.

zubairq• 3 years ago

Interesting idea

robbomacrae2• 3 years ago

I put together something in a similar vein but attempts to build up an audio tour like experience from the ground up.. old fashioned web scrape then summarized through LLM's: https://summer.ai

Ah I see the creator is in here. Will reach out!

Maps.fm: listen a podcast episode about that place on the map

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