Posts tagged Location Protocol
Building the Location Protocol into your applications
- 08 December 2025
Location-aware systems increasingly need more than just coordinates; they need verifiable evidence that a specific event, asset, or observation is tied to a place and time in a way others can independently check. The Location Protocol addresses this by defining an open standard for cryptographically signed records that represent spatial features and related metadata, and the Astral SDK provides a practical implementation for creating and working with these attestations in real applications.
Preserving Proof - Integrating Decentralized Storage with Location Protocol in Proofmode
- 17 November 2025
Journalists documenting conflict zones need to prove where evidence was captured. Climate researchers tracking deforestation require verifiable location data. Communities establishing land rights depend on immutable geographic records. The capability to create “proofs” from captured media is front and center in Proofmode, an open-source mobile application that verifies the provenance of photos and videos. In Proofmode, media can be captured or analyzed using multiple layers of its immutable metadata. The integrity of the media is ascertained by generating “proof artifacts”. These artifacts include hardware fingerprinting, cryptographic signing, and third-party notaries, which are combined into a “proof” allowing anyone to verify the authenticity of the selected media.
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.