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

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I've been exporting some agenda files to iCalendar, then uploading them
>>> to my server and getting them into the calendar app on my Android
>>> tablet, by means of Radicale and DAVDroid. It all works fine, though I
>>> wish I were able to get org-caldav working for two-way syncing.
>>>
>>> I recently put a LOCATION property on one of my events, and was very
>>> pleased to see that, in the google calendar app, the location was made
>>> clickable and I was given the option of opening the location in OSMand.
>>> I've wanted this for a long time! The only problem now is that I have no
>>> idea how to format the LOCATION property value so that it's recognized
>>> as a valid link. I assume I'd have to get the GPS coordinates and put
>>> them in there... but how?
>>>
>>> I guess this is what they call an "intent" in Android land, but I found
>>> it surprisingly difficult to google an answer.
>>>
>>> I know this is verging on OT, but if anyone knows how to do this, please
>>> let me know! It would be nice to make a few custom functions for
>>> inputting this kind of information.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> https://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-common.html#Maps
>>
>
> You might want to look at Julien Danjou's google-maps.el package and its
> org integration:
>
>    https://julien.danjou.info/projects/emacs-packages
>
> It's old and probably not directly applicable to what you are trying to
> do, but at the very least it might be tangentially interesting.

Thanks! I'll take a look.