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.

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

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.

I opened this in CoMaps and now i have a permanent map pointer to it hah

Oops 😄

I think if you clear the cache it might go away. Mine doesn't show it anymore

I'm on a phone, haven't tried it on a PC yet

Neat, works well for me on Boost / Android

What about tel:, or mailto:, sms:, callto:

Doesn't work on the moon.

That's probably what makes the difference

Geo means earth. Of course it won't work outside of the Earth

Permanent sea otters? I'd count that as a win.

Voyager

It’s hard not to immediately want to extend this to astronomy

For me it fails when I do that.

Does anyone know, why GitHub of all places does not support geo links in their readme or issue markdown files?

Well, most places people go to are outside the earth. (Just barely outside.)

FYI Works with Summit

FYI does using Summit

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.

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.

Doesn't do anything as far as I can tell? Or is this android specific?

Also the links don't work in discord.

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,

geo:37.786971,-122.399677;crs=Moon-2011;u=35

Edit: oops replied to the wrong person

Lemme see test link

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

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

Could be just my configuration, but does not work in Brave, does not work in Safari, DOES work in Orion.

not only that. some clients including voyager don't recognize geo uris as openable links

Ah, my mistake, there is no geography, geology, or geometry on the moon.

Nice !

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gotta marvel at the logic at work. No one supports it, neither should we. Great way to ensure nothing ever happens.

Well yeah, it's lunography, lunology and lunometry

That's just lunacy