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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc41303 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# 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 |