Re: [O] Org to ics calendar with location links?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Friday, 17 Apr 2015 at 13:43, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Keep us posted.  I would love to have this functionality as well.  The
>> LOCATION property does make it through org -> MobileOrg -> Google
>> Calendar so an easy to create geo: aware property would be quite useful.
>
> Preliminary experiments are positive! In fact, it was enough just to use
> a string like "geo:XXXX,YYYY" as the LOCATION property. That survived
> the ical export, and the caldav transfer, and when I "clicked" the
> resulting location line in the Android calendar app, it offered to open
> the link with OSMand, and showed me the correct coordinates.
>
> The nature of OSMand's response made me suspect that it might also
> accept arbitrary strings to search on (ie POI names or something), but
> further messing about will have to wait until tomorrow.
>
> Next up is finding out how to mark up the links so we can have a
> human-readable link text, with the link address hidden. Perhaps it will
> honor HTML, I don't know.

No, it ignores HTML. I've asked a question on StackOverflow, though, so
who knows...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29713943/formatting-text-of-ics-calendar-feed-to-make-clickable-intents-in-android