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authorMartin Fischer <martin@push-f.com>2025-03-14 05:32:24 +0100
committerMartin Fischer <martin@push-f.com>2025-03-14 08:35:47 +0100
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+# geopos.link
+
+Geographic positions can be shared with [geo: URI][rfc5870]s,
+however popular messaging apps like Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram
+[don't recognize such links][osmwiki:geo:], so this web application
+provides a workaround that's privacy-respecting because the coordinates
+are encoded in the URI fragment, which is never sent to the server.
+
+Hosted under https://geopos.link/.
+
+[rfc5870]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5870
+[osmwiki:geo:]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geo_URI_scheme