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Geo Share: An Android app to turn Google Maps URLs into geo: URLs (github.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@programming.dev

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F-Droid.

I think this app is a pretty essential app to anyone who want to leave Google Maps, so I am sharing it here for anyone who might need it.

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[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Some Google Maps links containt actual coordinates,

http://maps.google.com/?ll=XX.XXXX,XX.XXXX

They are usually generated by 3rd party apps. Like taxi or delivery apps. But links shared from Google maps themselves are encoded on the server side and look like this:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/GJq5XvqhJnJsS8pU8

I don't see any reason to encode locations in this way, except to make life difficult for users of other maps. This should be considered anti-competitive behavior.