[openstreetmap-website] Accept geo: URI in search and/or other parameter (#1123)

[danstowell]

It seems to me that triggering a search is not really what you want to do, since a "geo:" query has one definite result that you want to go directly to. You don't really want to trigger a search for those co-ordinates. Even though OSM knows to offer the direct co-ordinates as the first result, you still get a results page rather than the map you wanted. Therefore I'd suggest it's a bit meaningless to try to overload this into the search feature.

BUT I agree that it would be nice if OSM could understand geo: URIs, especially given the example of firefox default handlers. One option might be to add a separate new parameter. An alternative *might* be to overload the `#map=` parameter so it understands geo: URIs as a special case, so the template would be:

         uriTemplate=https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=%s

This overloading might not be favoured by the main OSM devs, especially as that parameter is core functionality. But one argument in its favour is that if a geo URI is specified then we don't really want a rival `#map` location to be specified - since then we'd have to decide which one wins.

(This is all assuming that the feature is desirable and that mozilla etc don't want to preprocess the query for us...)

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