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Allow to share locations as geo intent #3751

Open Norbert80 opened 8 years ago

Norbert80 commented 8 years ago

Allow to share locations as geo intent similar to OsmAnd's Share/geo: (Opening geo intents is already supported by MAPS.ME.)

mxa commented 6 years ago

The intent of this is behaviour obvious. Maps.me wants to convert more users to download and install their app. If I share a location via maps.me with a friend, he/she will be asked to download maps.me, to even see the coordinates. That's not very nice. Imagine we are both lost somewhere and mobile data is precious. Even with access to wifi, I don't know if the person on the other hand will be willing to install another app.

Where it's completely incompatible, is when I share the location with someone not on a mobile device. This is a dead end and the recipient sees the maps.me logo and is frustrated, because you can't do anything on Linux, OS X, Windows.

Adhere to a proven and working standard like GeoURI.