navigate to coordinates endpoint

[fredyshox]

Prototype of /navigate?lat=LAT&long=LONG route, which triggers navigation prompt to specified coordinates for current dongle id.

[gregjhogan]

Android can support this nicely via PWA manifest share_target with the addition of making a HEAD request to the URL passed in to get the lat/long of the shared location (and the name of the place selected if you selected a location with a name in google maps).

[fredyshox]

That's the goal 👍 It's slightly more complicated on iOS, because it would need custom Shortcut to appear in the share sheet, but it's definitely doable.

[fredyshox]

CORS prevents me from expanding shortened gmaps url using HEAD request. Will probably need additional endpoint on backend side for that.

[gregjhogan]

That is annoying, you could probably use a hidden iframe to load the URL and inspect it instead, but a new back end API endpoint may be better (may even want to use the google maps API instead of a head request). Also, I think your url parsing for google maps is extracting the center of the map and not the coordinates of the place?