An Android app to open Google Maps in other map apps and to create geo: links.
If someone sends you a Google Maps link but you prefer using OpenStreetMap, you can share the link with Geo Share. The app will open it in an installed map app of your choice, such as OsmAnd or Organic Maps.
If you like finding places on Google Maps but prefer a different app for navigation, you can share the location from Google Maps with Geo Share. The app will open it in your favorite navigation app.
You can also use the app to copy Google Maps links as geo: links to your clipboard.
Share a location from Google Maps app or from your web browser.
Choose Share geo: and Geo Share will let you open the location in any installed map app.
First, go to Settings > Apps > Maps > Open by default and disable Maps from opening links automatically.
Then go to Settings > Apps > Geo Share > Open by default > Add links and enable Geo Share to handle its supported links.
Make sure to select at least maps.google.com and maps.app.goo.gl. If some
links are grayed out, other Google apps may be set as their default handlers.
You can locate these apps and adjust their settings as we did with Google Maps.
Select Copy geo: when sharing from Google Maps.
Or simply open Geo Share and paste your Google Maps link.
There are three scenarios how Geo Share turns a Google Maps URL into a geo: URI. Two of them can connect to Google's servers.
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If the Google Maps URL already contains geographic coordinates (for example
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Central+Park/data=!3d44.4490541!4d26.0888398), then it's parsed and no request to Google's servers is made. -
If the Google Maps URL doesn't contain geographic coordinates (for example
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Central+Park/), then Geo Share asks you if it can connect to Google.If you allow connecting to Google, then Geo Share makes an HTTP GET request to Google Maps and parses the coordinates from the HTML response. You can imagine it as
curl https://www.google.com/maps/place/Central+Park/ | grep -E '/@[0-9.,-]+'.If you don't allow connecting to Google, then Geo Share creates a geo: link with a place search term (for example
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If the Google Maps URL is a short link (for example
https://maps.app.goo.gl/TmbeHMiLEfTBws9EA), then Geo Share asks you if it can connect to Google.If you allow connecting to Google, then Geo Share makes an HTTP HEAD request to the short link and reads the full link from the response headers. You can imagine it as
curl -I https://maps.app.goo.gl/TmbeHMiLEfTBws9EA | grep location:. Then Geo Share continues with scenario 1. or 2., depending on whether the full link contains coordinates or not. In case of scenario 2., another connection to Google will be made, but this time without asking.If you don't allow connecting to Google, then Geo Share cancels the creation of the geo: link.
Go to Preferences to permanently allow or deny connecting to Google instead of always asking, which is the default.
It's not possible to share a link from GMaps WV with Geo Share, because GMaps WV already produces geo: links. So you don't need Geo Share and can directly share a location from GMaps WV with another map app.
Geo Share supports many Google Maps URL formats. Still, if you find a link that doesn't work, please report an issue on GitHub.
Get the app on
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Download the APK from
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Verify the APK signature:
apksigner verify --print-certs page.ooooo.geoshare.apk
Expected output:
Signer #1 certificate DN: CN=Jakub Valenta, OU=Unknown, O=Unknown, L=Unknown, ST=Unknown, C=DE Signer #1 certificate SHA-256 digest: 1b27b17a9df05321a93a47df31ed0d6645ebe55d0e89908157d71c1032d17c10 Signer #1 certificate SHA-1 digest: f847c6935fa376a568a56ca458896b9236e22b6c Signer #1 certificate MD5 digest: 6bcaa6bd5288a6443754b85bf6700374 -
Install the APK on your phone using adb:
adb -d install page.ooooo.geoshare.apk
Open this repo in Android Studio to build and run the app, and to run unit tests and integrated tests.
make sign keystore_path=/path/to/your/keystore.jksmake installLink with coordinates in URL:
adb -s emulator-5554 shell am start -W -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d 'https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pozna%C5%84+Old+Town,+61-001+Pozna%C5%84,+Poland/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x47045b49399cf863:0xf61cbcaacd7d3070!7e2!8m2!3d52.4083009!4d16.929066199999998' page.ooooo.geoshare.debugLink with view centerpoint coordinates in URL:
adb -s emulator-5554 shell am start -W -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d 'https://www.google.com/maps/place/Berlin,+Germany/@52.5067296,13.2599309,11z/' page.ooooo.geoshare.debugShort link:
adb -s emulator-5554 shell am start -W -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d 'https://maps.app.goo.gl/eukZjpeYrrvX3tDw6' page.ooooo.geoshare.debugLink with coordinates only in HTML:
adb -s emulator-5554 shell am start -W -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d 'https://www.google.com/maps/place/Berlin,+Germany/' page.ooooo.geoshare.debugPlace list link:
adb -s emulator-5554 shell am start -W -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d 'https://www.google.com/maps/placelists/list/mfmnkPs6RuGyp0HOmXLSKg' page.ooooo.geoshare.debugGoogle Search link:
adb -s emulator-5554 shell am start -W -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d 'https://g.co/kgs/91UYXud' page.ooooo.geoshare.debugLink shared as a SEND Intent:
adb -s emulator-5554 shell am start -W -a android.intent.action.SEND -t text/plain -e android.intent.extra.TEXT "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Berlin,+Germany/@52.5067296,13.2599309,11z/" page.ooooo.geoshare.debugFeel free to remix this project under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. See COPYING and NOTICE.
