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Re:Setting up Starlink by kwhitefoot on Saturday April 10, 2021 @10:27AM (#26761697)
Clicking on a map location in Google maps shows a context menu where the first entry is the latitude and longitude, click that and it copies it to the clipboard. No need to use a Google specific encoding.
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Re:Setting up Starlink by paranoidrobot on Saturday April 10, 2021 @10:16PM (#26767004)
I'm not sure that using Google Maps to demonstrate copying a single way of encoding coordinates vs using an open standard is a terribly convincing argument.

Having a field that takes lat and lon has all sorts of ways to enter data either incorrectly, or in an unexpected format - if someone has coordinates from some other source they might be typing it in, rather than copy/pasting.

Also, as others have mentioned - plus codes (or Open Location Codes) are an open standard that can be implemented by anyone under an Apache 2.0 license with a whole bunch of example implementations on github[1]

[1] https://github.com/google/open-location-code

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