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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Subject: Re: Org to ics calendar with location links?
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 00:19:14 +0800
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Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Friday, 17 Apr 2015 at 13:43, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Nevermind, I'm an idiot! It looks like it's supposed to be
>> "geo:<latitude>,<longitude>", which matches up nicely with Org link
>> formats.
>>
>> I'll go experiment for a bit.
>
> Keep us posted.  I would love to have this functionality as well.  The
> LOCATION property does make it through org -> MobileOrg -> Google
> Calendar so an easy to create geo: aware property would be quite useful.

Preliminary experiments are positive! In fact, it was enough just to use
a string like "geo:XXXX,YYYY" as the LOCATION property. That survived
the ical export, and the caldav transfer, and when I "clicked" the
resulting location line in the Android calendar app, it offered to open
the link with OSMand, and showed me the correct coordinates.

The nature of OSMand's response made me suspect that it might also
accept arbitrary strings to search on (ie POI names or something), but
further messing about will have to wait until tomorrow.

Next up is finding out how to mark up the links so we can have a
human-readable link text, with the link address hidden. Perhaps it will
honor HTML, I don't know.

Eric