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geokon 15 hours ago

I think this is a larger web-standards problem.

There is no standard clickable "link" for physical locations. There is no URL-equivalent you can send to someone, they click it, it open up their map viewer of choice. You can send Lat Lon coordinates and then have the recipient copy and paste them. It generally works though there isn't a standard format and no service will make it clickable like an email address, so the whole process remains clunky.

When you "Share" a location in Google Maps or OSMand, you get back a URL link to their service and not an service agnostic "link" to the geographic location.

master-lincoln 14 hours ago | parent [-]

There is a standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_URI_scheme

I have it working on my Android phone. It's clickable links that open my map app of choice (or rather a selection dialog).

It's just that the big players do not want to use it.

bmordue 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm a bit surprised this doesn't have more traction. It doesn't seem to have been designed with POIs in mind, which is unfortunately a limitation.