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Peter Steinberger 9cf4f03afe feat(telegram): add rich outbound location and video notes (#105142)
* feat(telegram): add rich outbound sends

Co-authored-by: Paul Kondratov <paulislava@mail.ru>

* fix(telegram): reject unsupported outbound locations

* fix(telegram): preserve location send semantics

* fix(telegram): preserve cross-context location markers

* fix(outbound): validate standalone locations before decoration

* fix(telegram): project native locations into prompt context

* chore: defer Telegram changelog to release

* fix(telegram): align SDK surface and docs map

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summary: "Channel location parsing and portable outbound location payloads"
read_when:
- Adding or modifying channel location parsing
- Using location context fields in agent prompts or tools
title: "Channel location parsing"
---
OpenClaw normalizes shared locations from chat channels into:
- terse coordinate text appended to the inbound body, and
- structured fields in the auto-reply context payload. Channel-provided labels, addresses, and captions/comments are rendered into the prompt by the shared untrusted metadata JSON block, not inline in the user body.
Currently supported:
- **LINE** (location messages with title/address)
- **Matrix** (`m.location` with `geo_uri`)
- **Telegram** (location pins + venues + live locations)
- **WhatsApp** (`locationMessage` + `liveLocationMessage`)
## Text formatting
Locations are rendered as friendly lines without brackets. Coordinates use six decimal places; accuracy is rounded to whole meters:
- Pin:
- `📍 48.858844, 2.294351 ±12m`
- Named place (same line; the name/address go to the metadata block only):
- `📍 48.858844, 2.294351 ±12m`
- Live share:
- `🛰 Live location: 48.858844, 2.294351 ±12m`
If the channel includes a label, address, or caption/comment, it is preserved in the context payload and appears in the prompt as fenced untrusted JSON (fields are omitted when absent):
````text
Location (untrusted metadata):
```json
{
"latitude": 48.858844,
"longitude": 2.294351,
"accuracy_m": 12,
"source": "place",
"name": "Eiffel Tower",
"address": "Champ de Mars, Paris",
"caption": "Meet here"
}
```
````
## Context fields
When a location is present, these fields are added to `ctx`:
- `LocationLat` (number)
- `LocationLon` (number)
- `LocationAccuracy` (number, meters; optional)
- `LocationName` (string; optional)
- `LocationAddress` (string; optional)
- `LocationSource` (`pin | place | live`)
- `LocationIsLive` (boolean)
- `LocationCaption` (string; optional)
When the channel does not set an explicit source, OpenClaw infers it: live shares become `live`, locations with a name or address become `place`, everything else is `pin`.
The prompt renderer treats `LocationName`, `LocationAddress`, and `LocationCaption` as untrusted metadata and serializes them through the same bounded JSON path used for other channel context.
## Outbound payloads
The message tool and Plugin SDK use the same `NormalizedLocation` shape for portable outbound locations. A coordinate-only payload represents a pin. Channels with native venue support may map `name` plus `address` to a venue card.
Telegram currently exposes this through `message(action="send")`. Its first implementation is deliberately standalone: location payloads cannot be mixed with text or media, and incomplete venue pairs fail instead of silently dropping a name or address. Unsupported channels do not advertise the location parameter.
## Channel notes
- **LINE**: location message `title`/`address` map to `LocationName`/`LocationAddress`; no live locations.
- **Matrix**: `geo_uri` is parsed as a pin location; the `u` (uncertainty) parameter maps to `LocationAccuracy`, the event body populates `LocationCaption`, altitude is ignored, and `LocationIsLive` is always false.
- **Telegram**: venues map to `LocationName`/`LocationAddress`; live locations are detected via `live_period`.
- **WhatsApp**: `locationMessage.comment` and `liveLocationMessage.caption` populate `LocationCaption`.
## Related
- [Location command (nodes)](/nodes/location-command)
- [Camera capture](/nodes/camera)
- [Media understanding](/nodes/media-understanding)