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Show HN: Mapping with WhatsApp

2 pointsby sometinsome6 months ago
I&#x27;ve created this super-simple solution for creating maps with WhatsApp chats<p>It was developed to help emergency services and humanitarian organizations to get locations from people in the field during disasters and emergencies, but it can be used for anything else.<p>The common approach to use it is:<p>1. Create a WhatsApp group and invite people to it<p>2. Ask people to share locations followed by a message or a picture<p>3. Export the chat (with or without media) to a zip file<p>4. Upload the file to chatmap.hotosm.org<p>Code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hotosm&#x2F;chatmap">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hotosm&#x2F;chatmap</a>

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honorable_judge6 months ago
Found it interesting (for the use case) - the work to export chat and then map is exactly that: work