Locations, mapview, geodata & gps
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it's great Capacities uses experiential grounding of notes and built timeline (calendar, date, time) into the core of the system!
– would be even greater if the second basic orientational system of our everyday is also included: space & place!
I know this is rather in the idea section as it's about a dimension rather than a simple function.
– but I remember DayOne, DevonThink, even some Evernote-apps implementing geo-reference (including map-view & find-in-map) to notes. and it adds a whole new level of meaning & practicability!
think of fotos from trips; think of different notes to the same place, or: area! think of geo-referencing information, think of, where have I taken that note... all that!
I think a) this would be super useful woth such a versatile, multi-use/-dimension joy as Capacities; and b) it would also fit Capacities philosophy as it simply mirrors / complements the whole thinking around time & dates.
please consider :-)
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Steffen Bleher
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Thanks for voting on this ticket.
We also love the idea of maps and location information in Capacities and it will be added to Capacities eventually. Nevertheless, we see many other topics to be more important at the moment, so please bear with us.
Feel free to vote and comment to stay updated. It also gives us a better idea of how important this topic is.
Beth
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Address property
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Mike May
I have returned after year of absence. In setting up a workspace, people/relationships are very important to me. One attribute of people is location with several types of locations. The documentation is a bit silent on property=location but an AI search suggests using several text fields. that is not a good approach.
Am I missing something? Is address a part of any product plan?
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Matt Hanson
Capacities docs and tutorial videos make it a point to highlight how immensely useful it is to tie objects back to a date or date range, because it allows for natural discovery of a wide variety of objects through dates rather than through folders / hierarchy. Place is equally fundamental to recall and equally valid as a starting point for traversing the object graph. Some information is more tied to space than time (a hike object, for instance) and some information can be understood differently based on entry point. For example, I may want to recall a meeting because it happened a year ago today or because it happened at the place where I am planning to go next week.
Put another way, I use the Map collection in my Apple photos app all the time. It's a way for me to find photos that I would otherwise never be able to within a reasonable amount of time. There is tons of information that I can only really index by remembering where it related to.
My homegrown taxonomy of location and place works for now, but it's limiting and somewhat cumbersome.
There are tons of exciting projects in the queue and I don't think this should leapfrog all of them, but the ability to associate content by place would be tremendous.
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Not actively worked on, moved to open for now.
Beth
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Insert maps in Places and put pins on it
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Ana Leamaro
The idea is to be able to insert a map in the object "places" and you can put pins on the map signaling other places or moments, that will connect to other links. I'm using the pluggin leaflet in Obsidian and it's very useful for me to create RPG campaigns. It's also useful to plan travels, or travel journals. I believe it would improve extremely the use of the object places.
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Brad Hawkins
I would like to see mapping references added to Capacities. I think it should be possible using the likes of Google Maps (but not a simple hyperlink, but more of an embed). Even better, an Object Property for Mapping would be ideal.
I travel a fair bit for my work and this would be extremely helpful. Furthermore, I have just returned from two mini holiday breaks, and as I make notes it would be great to reference visited locations.
The same applies to planning a trip. One could plan out an itinerary and use a mapping feature to pin desired locations to visit and/or accomodation destinations etc.
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Oleksandr Zalishchuk
The notes heat map, similar to the Google Photos heat map, would be a terrific addition to Capacities' functionality. Imagine being able to open the map and see the headers of your notes (or even all objects) that you created while being physically present at specific locations.
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KB Yeo
Locations would really help with my notes/journaling. I've got meal/meeting notes that would be improved immensely by being able to tag either GPS coordinates or some kind of OpenStreetMaps or Google Maps integration.
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Paul Wood
I would love to see a map/location/waypoint feature in Capacities. I've been collecting locations of foraging spots on my ranch, and I'd like to keep track of where everything is and what I can find there. I'm using a GPS program currently but searching and sorting is very limited. Being able to copy lat/long out of Capacities and pasting into my GPS would be perfect.
Steffen Bleher
under review
Thanks for voting on this ticket.
We also love the idea of maps and location information in Capacities and it will be added to Capacities eventually. Nevertheless, we see many other topics to be more important at the moment, so please bear with us.
Feel free to vote and comment to stay updated. It also gives us a better idea of how important this topic is.
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Steffen Bleher thx for the constructive signalling here! 🌻 🙏
(I´ll surely continue pointing people from the forums here, when they raise the concern over there… ☺️ 👉 🚏)
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Susan Pearson
I currently add an Open Maps link as a Map Link Property to my Locations object.
This is good, however, it is limiting. I can only look at places one at a time and there is no way to see if I have people/events of significance from nearby areas. It would be amazing if there could be some sort of integration with open maps, so rather than having a url that takes me to a map I could see a pin on a globe and follow that to a map that has my other locations showing.
As well as historical/geographical research like mine I could see this would be useful for people planning/recording holidays or business trips/meetings etc.
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