Retroposting For Fun

Last spring, I started up my own Compass server. Compass is a location tracking server. Later on, I downloaded and extracted location tracking dating back to 2013 from Google Locations.

In honor of that, as my website can now dip into that data, I’ve gone into my photo archive to fill in the gaps on my website.

I set up this website in 2009, though I had sites before…and wasn’t really active on it till 2014. But, every so often, I do a little retroposting…some post throwpost posts, but for me, the difference is that I try to date it back to the day, sometimes the minute.

So this week, I’m revisiting June 2013. I added some photo posts for June 10, 2013. For all of these, the timestamps are based on the timestamp of the photo, and the location is pulled from where Google says I was at that time.  If I keep doing this, I may create the blog I should have been doing all this time.

I even added a map of my location that day, screenshot from Compass…in the future, I may replace it with a dynamically generated map using the data points stored…but as of this post, I have only some of that built.

Because, with the present involving some degree of isolation(future historians, there is a pandemic going on)…why not visit the past…?

David Shanske

My day job is in training for an airline. I also develop Indieweb WordPress plugins so that others can take control of their online identity.

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