Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> I've been exporting some agenda files to iCalendar, then uploading them
>> to my server and getting them into the calendar app on my Android
>> tablet, by means of Radicale and DAVDroid. It all works fine, though I
>> wish I were able to get org-caldav working for two-way syncing.
>>
>> I recently put a LOCATION property on one of my events, and was very
>> pleased to see that, in the google calendar app, the location was made
>> clickable and I was given the option of opening the location in OSMand.
>> I've wanted this for a long time! The only problem now is that I have no
>> idea how to format the LOCATION property value so that it's recognized
>> as a valid link. I assume I'd have to get the GPS coordinates and put
>> them in there... but how?
>>
>> I guess this is what they call an "intent" in Android land, but I found
>> it surprisingly difficult to google an answer.
>>
>> I know this is verging on OT, but if anyone knows how to do this, please
>> let me know! It would be nice to make a few custom functions for
>> inputting this kind of information.
>
> 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.
>
> https://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-common.html#Maps
>

You might want to look at Julien Danjou's google-maps.el package and its
org integration:

   https://julien.danjou.info/projects/emacs-packages

It's old and probably not directly applicable to what you are trying to
do, but at the very least it might be tangentially interesting.

Nick


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