[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Using URL schemes of google Maps - Libredirect (Issue #4219)

[Andy Allan]

Hi @IkelAtomig thank you for your feature request. I am going to close this request, because we are unlikely to implement this.

We have very limited resources, and providing url-compatibility to a commercial provider like Google is not something we want to attempt. Our site is not an end-user replacement for Google Maps, it is designed for our mapping community, and them alone.

Google Maps has a huge amount of end-user functionality that we don't offer, including things like StreetView, aerial imagery, terrain layers, traffic, "my maps" and so on. So beyond just positioning the map correctly, showing icon markers or search results, showing route overlays etc, we would need to add support for all of the things we can't offer, even if only to say "sorry we can't convert that url". The extra work for us would again simply not be a priority, and will prevent us from doing things that are more important to our goals.

You have already tried to implement a Google Maps URL -> OpenStreetMap URL conversion, and if you want to do so then that is your choice. But you say it "went more trickier" and it sounds like you simply want us to do the work for you instead!

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