[OSM-dev] [Talk-GB] OSM shortlinks problem

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:32, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think you could get maximum comparability with the most amount of
> silly URL extractors this way:

Eek, accidentally hit send, continued:

 * Replace @ with ~. I haven't seen anything that fails on ~ in the
middle or end of a URL.
 * End the link with .$zoom as you suggest.

This would also have the added advantage of it being easy to tweak the
zoom level after you've generated the shortlink.