Could be just my configuration, but does not work in Brave, does not work in Safari, DOES work in Orion.
Doesn't do anything as far as I can tell? Or is this android specific?
Also the links don't work in discord.
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
not only that. some clients including voyager don't recognize geo uris as openable links
Lemme see test link
I guess yours isn't working because there's a space in it
Ooh okay, I expected it to ignore the space, nice!
Yep, works with the default lemmy frontend and Waterfox then
Doesn't work on the moon.
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,
Nice !
Geo means earth. Of course it won't work outside of the Earth
Ah, my mistake, there is no geography, geology, or geometry on the moon.
People who named them like so didn't think that there would be geometry, geology or geography on the moon. Or they just interpreted it as land.
Well, most places people go to are outside the earth. (Just barely outside.)
Does anyone know, why GitHub of all places does not support geo links in their readme or issue markdown files?
Edit: oops replied to the wrong person
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.
Neat, works well for me on Boost / Android
I opened this in CoMaps and now i have a permanent map pointer to it hah
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
The link just does nothing for me on jerboa
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.
For me it fails when I do that.
FYI does using Summit
Is this better than What Three Words which also has a URL scheme? And is more memorable.
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.
I mean, that's kind of on purpose with W3W.
A slight error should make the recipient go "Wait, what? That's in Venezuela!" rather than sending an ambulance crew to a location like 20 miles away from you.
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
I will be linking to the sea otter pools at the Vancouver aquarium
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I wonder if it would make sense to have a URL scheme for that instead, like geo://49.30063,-123.13149
What about tel:, or mailto:, sms:, callto:
I'm trying to say "great job pointing that out" without soundling like an LLM. But seriously, I'm happy you pointed that out. I completely forgot about those syntaxes. After you mentioned them, I went and browsed RFC3986 and found these sample URIs, which include news, mailto, ftp, and more, which covers both // style and non-// style. https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3986/#section-1.1.2
It's too late for me to claim that I fully grok the nuances, so that'll have to wait for anther day, but I appreciate your comment. TIL some cool stuff.
It’s hard not to immediately want to extend this to astronomy
maybe geo:earth.surface/lat,lon?date=date or geo:mars.sky?lat=lat,lon=lon,date=date or something? I'm sure there could be a stanard syntax for but I'm pretty ignorant about how that could work well.
This is neat
It has abysmal support. All the places you'd need it to work without anything special, like link recognition in messaging apps and email clients, it rarely does. Even apps that could make good use of specific locations for inputs often don't register a handler for the scheme. It's been that way for years, and I don't expect it to get a whole lot better.
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.
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The link does not even render in Voyager, unfortunately.
Sadly it doesn't work sharing a geo link in Signal, and they don't want to implement it. GitHub Issue
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.
Lol the pr is only 2 files, one of which is a test class. I do wonder why they wrote their own parser, does javas url handler not support the geo scheme either or something?
Very cool, this was the result for me, so at least on android it seems to work as advertised.

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