🌍 MyZubster Is Evolving
MyZubster started from software, privacy-first infrastructure and experiments around decentralized services.
But that description is no longer enough.
Today MyZubster is evolving into something broader:
an open ecosystem connecting software with observations from the physical world.
The latest work is not theoretical.
I started documenting real places, plants and environmental observations in Rimini, Italy.
📍 Real-world observations
The repository now contains geographic observations represented as structured GeoJSON data.
Coordinates are stored using the standard GeoJSON order:
longitude, latitude
The interface can display them in the more familiar:
latitude, longitude
External map services can be used as references, while MyZubster keeps its own observation metadata and media.
📸 Photographic evidence
The project now includes original photographic documentation organized directly inside the open-source repository.
Current examples include:
- Piazza Ferrari, Rimini
- Via Clodia, Rimini
- Futura Ambiente
- botanical observations
- a documented private garden
- individual plant observations
The media structure is deliberately organized by location and subject.
Example:
public/media/rimini/
├── gardens/
│ └── garden-001/
│ └── plants/
│ ├── alloro/
│ ├── banano/
│ ├── papiro/
│ └── susino/
├── services/
├── squares/
├── streets/
└── personal/
🌱 A garden becomes a dataset
One of the newest experiments is extremely simple:
document a real garden as structured open data.
Four plants have already been photographed and added:
- 🌿 Alloro
- 🍌 Banano
- 🌾 Papiro
- 🌳 Susino
Each observation can eventually connect several layers:
physical object → photograph → coordinates → metadata → GeoJSON → public repository
This is the direction I want to explore.
Not just displaying pins on a map.
Building a traceable relationship between digital information and something that actually exists in the physical world.
🗺️ Why GeoJSON?
GeoJSON gives MyZubster a simple interoperable format for geographic observations.
A record can describe a point and associate it with information such as:
- observation ID
- name
- coordinates
- category
- photographs
- description
- source
- timestamps
This means the same dataset can potentially be consumed by maps, APIs, research tools and other open-source projects.
🔬 From platform to field observations
This changes the way I think about MyZubster.
It shouldn't be described only as a cryptocurrency gateway or freelance marketplace.
Those technologies are part of its history and development, but MyZubster is becoming an experimental open ecosystem where different modules can coexist:
- software
- maps
- environmental observations
- botanical records
- IoT
- AI
- robotics
- privacy technologies
- open datasets
- verifiable media
The common principle is not a particular cryptocurrency.
The common principle is open, independently inspectable information and infrastructure.
🧪 Building in public
The interesting part is that this is happening incrementally.
A photograph becomes a record.
A coordinate becomes a geographic observation.
A plant becomes part of a botanical dataset.
A street or square becomes a documented location.
And every step can be stored, reviewed and improved through Git.
That's the experiment.
🚀 What's next?
The next steps include:
- connecting photographs directly to GeoJSON observations
- expanding botanical records
- improving the public world map
- adding structured observation metadata
- documenting more locations
- connecting field observations with AI-assisted analysis
- creating clearer provenance for media and data
MyZubster is still evolving.
And that's exactly the point.
Instead of defining the project permanently around what it was yesterday, I'm documenting what it becomes through real code, real data and real observations.
🔗 Follow the development
GitHub:
https://github.com/MyZubster-Ecosystem/myzubster
The repository contains the code, datasets and photographic records used in this experiment.
MyZubster — connecting open source software with the physical world.
If you're working with open data, GeoJSON, citizen science, environmental monitoring, IoT or decentralized infrastructure, I'd be interested in exchanging ideas.
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