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Re: "No Google? No Maps! No Friends 🏝"
Thanks for the detailed post :)
I don't think there is any tracking associated with the maps URLs. From what I can find they are a simple "link shortener" type of service.
Unfortunately that means that to extract the info you have to at least do a HTTP request and dump the redirect destination to get the long form URL. I did find some guides to decoding that, at least.
Still pretty annoying to do on the phone. I guess you could set up a website with a similar name that does the "fetch redirect" and then the decode and then redirects you somewhere else ... then you'd just manually edit the URL to point to your version. Best I can think of...
2023-12-15 · 1 year ago
I send to friends "geo:xxxxx,yyyyy" and they treat me as a weirdo. Which I am sort of. And I live with it.
🚀 Bazmatazable [OP] · 2023-12-16 at 02:51:
Glad to hear somone somewhere is try to spread the geo:xx.xxx,yy.yyy love! I also went down that rabit hole to see how Google is shortening the links and to maybe try and make an app (or more likely a script) that unwraps it automatically. I then found out that for actual places (like restaurants or train stations) Google is asigning them a unique code so even after you follow the link the actual location is in the end with Google and not in the link itself.
🐐 satch · 2023-12-16 at 14:23:
Honesty is the best principle
Respond to a Google Maps link with hey, I don’t use Google Maps. Can you send me coordinates/address/something else?
🐵 cquenelle · 2023-12-16 at 20:20:
Apologies for being off-topic, but I read the title here and heard: "no sun, no moon, No proper time of day" from Art of Noise - Opus 4. Which is based on the poem November by Thomas Hood.
🌲 Half_Elf_Monk · 2024-02-18 at 08:03:
It'd be great to have a FOSS app that could take a link, access google/apple maps API, and output the geo/physical (user configurable) address to my maps program. Wouldn't have to be manual, and it could run through a proxy/orbot. I don't know of one that exists, but if someone makes it please lmk.
No Google? No Maps! No Friends 🏝 — TLDR; We rely too heavily on links to convey and discuss locations and it is not universally interoperable. If it wasn't for Google's obvious monopoly we would have solved this already. 📱 I've been using LineageOS for about a year now with very few complaints. I actually installed LineageOS , then GrapheneOS, then LineagOS and then LineageOS again on the same phone as I figured out how to get an OS that meets my needs (and also figure out what I actually *...
💬 Bazmatazable · 6 comments · 7 likes · 2023-12-15 · 1 year ago