[OSM-talk] Some thoughts against remote mapping

[Simon Poole]

Am 15.06.2015 um 11:37 schrieb Lester Caine:
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> 
> All that is lacking is that other apps go to OSMAND rather than trying
> to get google maps running ... which only works with a network link?
> 
...

We're really getting substantially off topic now.

Apps on android in general don't have specific other apps hardwired to
perform tasks that they themselves don't handle. They will use a so
called "intent" to indicate that they want to do something, for example
display a location on a map, see

https://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-common.html#Maps

the Android system will them either provide the user a selection of the
apps that have indicated that they can perform the requested action, or,
if the user has indicated the preferred app for a task, use that.

The latter can naturally be changed by the user. Both OSMand and
Vespucci support geo URIs on android.


https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/intents

lists all the intents that google maps support. I have to say that I
haven't tested if all of these can be changed in the above fashion, it
is obvious from the documentation that google has made that a bit
harder. It would be interesting to see if you could convince android to
at least offer the option of starting Mapillary instead of Streetview.

Simon

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