A very interesting idea! When tapping on coordinates within the app, I agree that it makes a lot more sense to launch a default geo: intent that will trigger the Android activity chooser to allow the user to pick the maps app that will handle the intent.

this ticket is about sending a geo-intent. The opposite, receiving a geo-intent is also interesting (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139329)

Does a standard definition of a "geo-intent" or "geo intent" exist? Do you just mean a geo URI?

Standard geo- intent means an android intent with ACTION_VIEW or ACTION_SEND and data in geo-uri format.

android java code looks like this

double lat = 52.1;
double lon = 9.2;
String geoUri = String.format(Locale.ENGLISH, "geo:%f,%f", lat, lon);
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(geoUri));
startActivity(intent);

For details see https://github.com/k3b/k3b-geoHelper/wiki/Android-Geo-howto In this ticket wikipeedia is the GEOClientActivity.

It seems that the coordinates link has disappeared from articles altogether (i.e. when the article is read in the app). Why is that? Thanks!

@Bjohas1: General questions unrelated to a specific task can be asked on the mailing list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Related: T146919

In T136579#3140501, @Klaus3b wrote:

Standard geo- intent means an android intent with ACTION_VIEW or ACTION_SEND and data in geo-uri format.

Sounds like a "yes" to me. Providing geo URIs makes sense to me. It might however easier to rewrite the geohack URLs to geo URIs in mobile rather than the opposite.

Would be amazing if somebody could look into adding a geo intent...

Hopefully the task summary is clearer now.

This is for the extension geodata, not the geodata project (or Discovery Search). Adding Maps tag back in for future prioritization.