[Marble-bugs] [marble] [Bug 344237] Export geo: URI

[Dennis Nienhüser]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344237

--- Comment #7 from Dennis Nienhüser <earthwings at gentoo.org> ---
One thing we didn't discuss in detail yet is what the coordinates that are
copied are used for. Usually you'd want to feed them to some other software or
website, or store them in a text file. While in the latter case you can format
it the way you like best, whenever you feed them to some other tool it's not
really your choice how to format them -- the tool decides. Therefore I'm afraid
we should rather support several common formats at the same time.

So instead of having an option in the settings I'd provide a submenu like this:
http://nienhueser.de/marble/copy-coordinates-mockup.png

This might not be enough yet, though. There's the possibility to write
coordinates in the order lon,lat and also in the order lat,lon. Both ways are
commonly used unfortunately. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709#Order.2C_sign.2C_and_units and
https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/12450/coordinate-format-latlon-vs-lonlat
for a start.

We shouldn't add any combination we think of, however. Instead do some
reasearch what formats common tools like OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Google
Earth, Bing, .... accept and settle on a common ground.

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