Fallback to random choice

[OldhamMade]

If no current location information is available, have an option to show a random location.

[tomtaylor]

The problem with this is that 70% of the random locations are over open water, and 90% of the rest probably have poor quality imagery, or are completely boring. So you need to do a random location that's interesting, which needs a dataset to work from. I'm open to input on how to do this, but it's not something I've got planned myself.

[OldhamMade]

I'm not sure of the underlying architecture, but would it be possible to maybe supply a random city name (or point of interest, eg. "Loch Ness", "JFK Airport", "Colosseum, Rome") to the mapping backend? Or even a user-supplied list in preferences, one entry per line?

[tomtaylor]

Yep, that very sensible. I'm happy to accept a pull request to do this, but don't have time to do it myself right now.

[cpiggott]

I would be open to working on something like this with predefined PoI if you aren't already @OldhamMade ?

[OldhamMade]

@cpiggott it's not something I have capacity for at the moment, so feel free! 👍

[cpiggott]

Thanks for letting me know @OldhamMade

Time to clone and start building.

[aslakr]

Would it be possible to get a list of location (places) from Apple Photos/PhotoKit at specific zoom level and choose randomly from that?

[aslakr]

This isn't the official way of getting the coordinates from Apple Photos, but using SQL

SELECT DISTINCT 
    zlatitude,
    zlongitude
FROM 
    zgenericasset 
WHERE 
    zlatitude AND zlongitude IS NOT "-180.0" ;

for example:

/usr/bin/sqlite3 -csv \
    ~/Pictures/*.photoslibrary/database/Photos.sqlite \
    'SELECT DISTINCT zlatitude,zlongitude FROM zgenericasset WHERE zlatitude AND zlongitude IS NOT "-180.0" ;'

should give a list of places the user have been.