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Spec · 2025

Astral Docs: Location Records

Co-founder, Astral

The Astral documentation describes location records -- signed, verifiable location data artifacts that add cryptographic attribution and integrity checking to raw geospatial data.

docs.astral.global

Purpose

A verifiable spatial data registry needs a concrete record format. This documents ours, as implemented.

Approach

Documentation for location records in Astral -- signed location data artifacts adding attribution and integrity checking to raw GeoJSON. A functional prototype of the registry record concept.

Status

Live documentation, maintained.

astrallocation-recordsdocumentation

Connections

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Astral: a spatial extension for the decentralized web

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This FOSS4G North America 2025 talk introduces Astral: the Location Protocol for signed spatial records, a modular library of location-proof strategies, and Spatial.sol utilities for smart contracts.

Astral SDK

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The Astral SDK is a TypeScript library for creating and verifying location attestations -- signed records that bind location data to a signer and a time, off-chain or on-chain via the Ethereum Attestation Service.

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