Feature request

[Pachuquero]

Extremely useful. I'd like to request the possibility of adding a logo.

I was recommended to use the free Blinq app, which I found out adds four trackers...

[Pachuquero]

Come to think of it, it would be great to also be able to add an address.

Cheers and thanks!

[Steve0verton]

Sounds good, I will work on that this week!

[Steve0verton]

@Pachuquero check out the address additions, let me know what you think. I had to make a lot of additional updates to bring Bootstrap CSS up to the latest. Also had to figure out all of the variations in address fields to manage. Working on image upload now.

[Pachuquero]

Hi Steve,

It looks great - and I'm delighted that you included both home and business phones & addresses.

Though I don't presently need a business address, I now use two QRs on my phone - with and w/o my home address, depending on whom I'm dealing with. This I find extremely convenient for quick exchange of contact data!

I think it would be very useful to be able to also share one's location with a link that will open a navigation and/or map app (e.g. Waze, Open Street Map, Google Map, etc.). Here in Costa Rica most of us depend on Waze, which can generate such a link to be put in your QR (so far that's what I did with my email signature).

Related to this is that at least Google's Contacts will automatically offer a Google Map link in its address book - assuming it can connect the two. However, here in Costa Rica physical addresses are somewhat of a mess so we're better off simply manually finding coordinates and manually adding an appropriate link stating what app will open it.

I don't know if the vCard standard can accommodate such a feature and - if not - one can simply add it to the address field - assuming there is enough space (as I've done in the example below in Google Contacts).

[image: From Google Contacts.jpg]

I suppose that the vCard standard includes Notes so that would be another place to put such a geographic link. If these solutions are clickable I don't know....?

A final comment has to do with the image upload. In my case it would be for a logo, which I suppose would apply for most businesses. I do not-for-profit natural resource GIS work. Either way if it can enter a given address book that would be smashing!

Thanks again for all the good work! I've already recommended to friends your https://qrbizcard.net

Have a nice day,

Micael

On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 6:16 AM Steve Overton @.***> wrote:

@Pachuquero https://github.com/Pachuquero check out the address additions, let me know what you think. I had to make a lot of additional updates to bring Bootstrap CSS up to the latest. Also had to figure out all of the variations in address fields to manage. Working on image upload now.

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[Steve0verton]

Awesome! Glad it is helpful, this is a basic tool I decided to build to help people out. Using a QR code as a native business card is such a cool thing for networking and business purposes. I'm happy you (and others) are getting use from it!

Check out the TODO.md list at the root. I did add Notes and plenty of other things I'm going to work on also. I'll close this Issue out once I get the contact photo upload thing working, it is a little more challenging. Working on the photo upload thing now, trying to use what the Bootstrapped CSS provides, but also have to write up some Javascript so everything happens right in the browser (nothing to actually upload!).

Feel free to load up more issues to add anything missing!

[Pachuquero]

I just found out that if I exclude input for State then the whole address disappears from the QR. Since Costa Rica is not a federation a State does not apply here. We do have Provinces though but it may be ambiguous in this case to add it, since that is also the name of the capital.

P.S.: just got your response. I surely will check out the Todo list. Cheers mate!

On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 12:23 PM Micael Junkov @.***> wrote:

Hi Steve,

It looks great - and I'm delighted that you included both home and business phones & addresses.

Though I don't presently need a business address, I now use two QRs on my phone - with and w/o my home address, depending on whom I'm dealing with. This I find extremely convenient for quick exchange of contact data!

I think it would be very useful to be able to also share one's location with a link that will open a navigation and/or map app (e.g. Waze, Open Street Map, Google Map, etc.). Here in Costa Rica most of us depend on Waze, which can generate such a link to be put in your QR (so far that's what I did with my email signature).

Related to this is that at least Google's Contacts will automatically offer a Google Map link in its address book - assuming it can connect the two. However, here in Costa Rica physical addresses are somewhat of a mess so we're better off simply manually finding coordinates and manually adding an appropriate link stating what app will open it.

I don't know if the vCard standard can accommodate such a feature and - if not - one can simply add it to the address field - assuming there is enough space (as I've done in the example below in Google Contacts).

[image: From Google Contacts.jpg]

I suppose that the vCard standard includes Notes so that would be another place to put such a geographic link. If these solutions are clickable I don't know....?

A final comment has to do with the image upload. In my case it would be for a logo, which I suppose would apply for most businesses. I do not-for-profit natural resource GIS work. Either way if it can enter a given address book that would be smashing!

Thanks again for all the good work! I've already recommended to friends your https://qrbizcard.net

Have a nice day,

Micael

On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 6:16 AM Steve Overton @.***> wrote:

@Pachuquero https://github.com/Pachuquero check out the address additions, let me know what you think. I had to make a lot of additional updates to bring Bootstrap CSS up to the latest. Also had to figure out all of the variations in address fields to manage. Working on image upload now.

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[Steve0verton]

@Pachuquero bad news, I don't think embedding a photo is worthwhile. I'm getting errors from the QR generation API, because the request body is too large (due to the base64 encoding of the image). I finally got it working, but the large amount of data makes the API request fail.

I could try switching to a POST request to generate (reference link below), but I feel like the QR image itself will become too large and not be productive for the smaller use cases of a "virtual business card" because the QR code would have to be physically printed very large. https://developers.google.com/chart/image/docs/post_requests

More info on large requests: https://developers.google.com/chart/image/faq?csw=1#url_length

I'm going to mark this issue as closed. Please continue to create other issues as new ideas come up! (That's aren't already on the TODO list...)