German town votes ‘No’ to street names

Re:German town votes ‘No’ to street names by scotty79 on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:12AM (#19075398)

I'd love to use lat/long. I would expect that on the phone with GPS I should be able to paste my current location (after reviewing it and possibly adjusting it on a map) anywhere .. mail, text, message in any app, any text field. And whoever views the message or document with such pasted location should be able to see where it is, navigate there.

But regrettably that's not the case. So I'm hoping that SOMETHING will catch on eventually.

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Re:German town votes ‘No’ to street names by hxsvui on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:39AM (#19075501)

Yeah and guess how good it works offline. You don't even know which country a place is in if you only know coordinates and have no access to the smartphone. Do a typo and there's no redundancy or error correction. You'll end up in some ocean then.

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Re:German town votes ‘No’ to street names by leetcrew on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:17AM (#19076054)

can't you already do this with share intents on android? how many messaging apps do you know of that don't provide an endpoint for share location from google maps?

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