Posts tagged Astral
Using the Location Protocol to Decentralize and Verify Geospatial Data - Three Demonstrative Applications
- 06 October 2025
Reliable digital location information is foundational to scientific research, news reporting, and many online services. Yet, traditional methods for sharing and verifying this data fall short. Too often, location records are easy to alter, hard to trace, and siloed within single apps. The location protocol intends to close these gaps. It sets out a standard approach for recording, authenticating, and exchanging “location claims”—assertions linking events or observations to specific places.
The Location Protocol specification - A standardized framework for working with location information on the decentralized web
- 19 May 2025
In collaboration with Astral, we’ve been designing a standardized framework for working with location information on the decentralized web. The goal of this work is to enrich the emerging decentralized geospatial web with established geospatial standards, making it easier to create and share geographic data and services in a decentralized manner, but also bringing novel mechanisms for verifiability, transparency, and trust to the web more generally.
State of the Ecosystem - A Closer Look at the Decentralized Geospatial Web
- 08 April 2025
As part of our ongoing efforts under The Decentralized Geospatial Collaborative, we’ve started to define the ecosystem for decentralized geospatial tooling. We’ve also been fostering a community on the Telegram Astral channel, with discussions on expanding the possibilities of decentralization within the digital geospatial realm. In this post, we take a closer look at the core applications and tools that form the backbone of this ecosystem, each playing a critical role in enabling decentralized geospatial capabilities.
Introducing the Decentralized Geospatial Collaborative - Creating a community driven decentralized geospatial web
- 01 March 2025
We are bringing together the work from Astral and EASIER into a unified ecosystem as The Decentralized Geospatial Collaborative. This initiative aims to enhance decentralized geospatial tools, foster community collaboration, and develop a framework for working with location data on the decentralized web with broader applications. By merging these repositories, we are not only consolidating development efforts but also making it easier for contributors to engage with the project.