Feature: Umap Support

[whoamiafterall]

Current Map Features

The current map feature doesn't have the following features:

• Not added to posts in Integrations (Twitter, Telegram, Mastodon)
• No Layers
• No Design options for objects (Color, Shape, etc.)

Proposal

Use https://github.com/umap-project/umap
as the Map Software because it has layers and Design Options.
See example map: https://lstu.fr/luetzisolimap

Input Side (to umap)

There could be a GeoRSS feed generated by the Ticker which automatically integrates to a umap. So maybe just an additional field or an iframe of the map in the ticker-admin-panel to add an object to the map.
Examples for such a mechanism here:

• https://wiki.lantifa.org => https://map.lantifa.org (Wiki => Umap)
• https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ybon/diary/21700 (Flickr => Umap)

It would be really nice if there was an option to have multiple maps connected and be able to select before sending a post on which map to add the marker/object through the admin panel.
Also an option to select none would be good, to not create an additional requirement for each post.

Markdown Support

Umap supports a flavor of Markdown, so the Text of the Ticker Posts could be added to the Information of the Object on the map. Also Photos and Links can be added. See:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UMap/Guide/Text_formatting

Output Side (from umap)

For the Posts there is probably no easy way to add an interactive map on every Platform (maybe html-iframes, but probably not).
A compromise could be:

• the selected map is shown in an iframe in the admin panel
• you select the zoom level and part of the map that should be posted in that iframe (by dragging and zooming)
• the ticker software automatically takes a screenshot of that exact frame when you click on a button (e.g. send or dedicated button) and adds it as a photo to the Post
• the Map is distributed to all Platforms via the Screenshot

Here is an API that might be useful:
https://rapidapi.com/collection/screenshot-api

Ideas on how to do it

Sorted from hard/nice to easy/okay

1. Connect the Ticker-Account to a umap/openstreetmap Account, so you could choose from all the Maps the Account has access to. Umap uses openstreetmap for its Account Management (SSO) so there is probably a way to mimic that and have the ticker as an SSO-Client for Openstreetmap.

2. Just have a single map connected to one Ticker Feed through a GeoRSS-feed.
   This can simply be done via the settings of the umap. It just requires the Ticker-API to generate a GeoRSS-Feed.
   It could be done with an if-clause that makes it not push to umap when there is no information about location added.

Additional Information

• Umap on Matrix:
  https://matrix.to/#/#umap-project_umap:gitter.im