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I just had to check whether you were 'the' Colin Wright, and looking at your profile I think you are. Small world! I am a fellow juggler, and used to run the I

I just had to check whether you were 'the' Colin Wright, and looking at your profile I think you are. Small world! I am a fellow juggler, and used to run the Internet Juggling Database. We also very briefly bumped into each other in a corridor at Leeds Uni Physics department about 25 years ago ;-)

ColinWright 4y ago
It's me ... hi! You don't have contact details in your profile, but feel free to email me. I travel a lot and can put you in my geographical address book so that if I come within reach we can get a coffee. Cheers!
- qrohlf 4y ago
  Off-topic, but what do you use for your "geographical address book"? I would love to have something that showed all my contacts on a map, but haven't run into any software that does this ever.
  - ColinWright 4y ago
    It will come as a surprise to no one who knows me ... I wrote my own. More, I created a system wherein people can register, and then whenever someone is travelling they can tell the system and it automatically emails everyone they know who is close to the destination. I'm the only one who uses it, although there are a few hundred people on it, so I basically just use it as my geographical address book. I also put landmarks, museums, and other places I might like to visit. When I tell it where I'm going it then sends me email to remind me of them.
    - qrohlf 4y ago
      I also wrote my own system for pretty much this exact purpose, although instead of emailing me reminders, it just lets me record notes on a map and then I skim that map whenever I am planning a trip to a given country or region. It's online (but registration is invite only, let me know if you want to play with it) over at https://scoutmaps.io/ https://scoutmaps.io/ – at one point I was going to attempt to commercialize it, but eventually decided I liked it better as hobby software so that I can write features that better serve my current userbase of one :)
    - chagaif 4y ago
      That is so amazing! I also attempted creating such a concept but never got anyone of my friends to use it... I ended up heavily using (and abusing) the Google maps share your location feature and I was so excited to see they are adding features related to notifications when people get close - only noticed it a few months ago. Telegram had also released similar features but only when you share your location live witch you can only do for a limited amount of time. Nevertheless interesting to see these kind of features are slowly getting implemented even if easy too late and not close to how I would like and imagine they could be... I also have my live location broadcasted here: https://chagai.website/location.html https://chagai.website/location.html when it's not broken

ColinWright 4y ago

It's me ... hi! You don't have contact details in your profile, but feel free to email me. I travel a lot and can put you in my geographical address book so that if I come within reach we can get a coffee. Cheers!

qrohlf 4y ago
Off-topic, but what do you use for your "geographical address book"? I would love to have something that showed all my contacts on a map, but haven't run into any software that does this ever.
- ColinWright 4y ago
  It will come as a surprise to no one who knows me ... I wrote my own. More, I created a system wherein people can register, and then whenever someone is travelling they can tell the system and it automatically emails everyone they know who is close to the destination. I'm the only one who uses it, although there are a few hundred people on it, so I basically just use it as my geographical address book. I also put landmarks, museums, and other places I might like to visit. When I tell it where I'm going it then sends me email to remind me of them.
  - qrohlf 4y ago
    I also wrote my own system for pretty much this exact purpose, although instead of emailing me reminders, it just lets me record notes on a map and then I skim that map whenever I am planning a trip to a given country or region. It's online (but registration is invite only, let me know if you want to play with it) over at https://scoutmaps.io/ https://scoutmaps.io/ – at one point I was going to attempt to commercialize it, but eventually decided I liked it better as hobby software so that I can write features that better serve my current userbase of one :)
  - chagaif 4y ago
    That is so amazing! I also attempted creating such a concept but never got anyone of my friends to use it... I ended up heavily using (and abusing) the Google maps share your location feature and I was so excited to see they are adding features related to notifications when people get close - only noticed it a few months ago. Telegram had also released similar features but only when you share your location live witch you can only do for a limited amount of time. Nevertheless interesting to see these kind of features are slowly getting implemented even if easy too late and not close to how I would like and imagine they could be... I also have my live location broadcasted here: https://chagai.website/location.html https://chagai.website/location.html when it's not broken