YSK about the Geo URI scheme, a standard way to link to a location so that users can open it in any map application or website

Same with element. They used to support it but dropped it. Really stupid excuse in that github issue. If adding support for sonething so simple adds lots of complexity then your codebase is garbage. This is why we cant have nice things.

Gotta marvel at the logic at work. No one supports it, neither should we. Great way to ensure nothing ever happens.

The link does not even render in Voyager, unfortunately.

That's exactly why YSK (especially if you're a developer)!

Pro tip: on Android, the Automate app can receive text shared to it and do custom things — such as getting coordinates, slapping 'geo:' on them, and opening in a map app. This can alleviate some of the pains by the user selecting and sharing the coords by hand. The app is paid and requires some programming chops, but is hella useful for custom automation.

You don't need to bring clams, but it's polite to do so

This is only true if you don't have an app installed to handle the link schema. When I click the link, it opens Organic Maps

For me in Firefox it just takes me to my search engine, which proposes a bunch of sites to convert gps coordinates, top item is a front end for google maps. No OpenStreetMaps to be seen. Doesn't look like it's a universally supported thing. Also none of the position links in this thread are clickable

Which app/frontend are you using? It looks like some of the Lemmy/Piefed clients don't support it properly.

You have a space after the comma which is ruining the formatting. Try it without.

Also, no, I do not live at this location. Not currently.

You otter consider it though. Free food. Swim any time you want. That’s the life.

Also: Unfortunately, in Voyager, the geo link is rendered just as the link description and isn’t clickable. And on iOS, I tried Firefox Focus and Safari and both just took me to a web search for longitude and latitude. I really wish it worked because it’s a great feature.

What about tel:, or mailto:, sms:, callto:

It’s hard not to immediately want to extend this to astronomy

Technically it does.

The default is to use the Coordinate Reference System for the Earth, but if you wanted to use the moon then you'd use something like,

geo:37.786971,-122.399677;crs=Moon-2011;u=35

Geo means earth. Of course it won't work outside of the Earth

You need the ! to start it off.


Edit: Not working

Edit 2, trying again:


Edit 3: no worky

Edit 4: Now it works as a link, thanks to the other posters, but it doesn't really do anything. Maybe Ublock Origin?

Let’s see

Remove the space

Like this.

*Downvotes for helping someone is a new one. Strange.

It seems that google maps is a bit hit or miss, maybe locations that have more details work better?

Google maps does not have anywhere near the level of detail openstreetmaps does for that location

It's what's known as a "Protocol URI", which the OS and/or browser have to choose what to do with that

Sounds like you have an OS or Browser that haven't implemented the protocol

How odd 😄

Permanent sea otters? I'd count that as a win.

Oops 😄

I think if you clear the cache it might go away. Mine doesn't show it anymore

There are apps that can translate links into different formats, I would recommend that for your use case:

https://github.com/jakubvalenta/GeoShare

https://f-droid.org/packages/page.ooooo.geoshare/

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/page.ooooo.geoshare

For me it does work when I hold press the link and then choose "Open in external" in the popup that opens. But yes, simply tapping does nothing.

FYI does using Summit

Mailto is explicitly allowed in the sanitizer they use, other such uri schemes aren't.
This is relatively standard, likely due to the mixed support.
Geo is not well supported, and ones like sms are platform-dependent.
It's just a pain noone wants to deal with.

Edit: oops replied to the wrong person

It doesn't work in Voyager, so I pasted it into ddg and I got a list of relevant apps to open it with.

The geo URL scheme works even for non English speakers and it won't give you a location on the other side of the world if you lake a typo or pronounce it bad.

Since WhatThreeWords is proprietary, it likely won't be as easy to get it implemented in everything. I think the difficulty with coordinates can be solved by having an easy way to copy the Geo URI from various map apps

Of course it does, they're not gonna miss an opportunity to get you into their app from somewhere else

test link

I guess yours isn't working because there's a space in it

Definitely, IMO a business should link to multiple options to catch the most customers

I believe both google and apple maps support generic links with coordinates, although I don't know the exact structure