show current location

[derhuerst]

Would like to be able to center the map around my current location. I wrote location for this.

Will submit a PR if you don't mind.

[rastapasta]

lovely idea!

[derhuerst]

would you like to have a specific key to query the location? what about showing a progress indicator? what about setting the zoom level?

[derhuerst]

on the current-location branch, it will now query the current location after startup. rendering it is still missing.

[rastapasta]

would you like to have a specific key to query the location?

like the idea, choose any one that feels good for you :)

what about showing a progress indicator?

👍 _notify will help
would love to include a simple UI at some point to display information like progress/meta/search/*

what about setting the zoom level?

hum..., maybe on initial load keeping the minimal zoom, when pressing the corresponding key street/block-level-ish?

thanks for your work!

[derhuerst]

would you like to have a specific key to query the location?

like the idea, choose any one that feels good for you :)

i picked l

current-location will show a notification now.

[rastapasta]

❤️ tried and works beautifully!

just one question came to my mind:
in terms of user control & privacy, should we maybe ask before sending the related data?

we could / i would implement a small info-footer with all keys on startup - with [l] being the first.

thoughts?

[derhuerst]

in terms of user control & privacy, should we maybe ask before sending the related data?

good point. macOS will automatically ask if the helper tool (that location uses underneath) should be able to access your location. on Linux and Windows, this warning is currently missing.

from the perspective of location, we have two choices:

• let consuming tools such as mapscii ask for permission. this is easy to implement, as the prompt can be shown in the best context possible (web, cli, gui)
• let location ask for permission. this would have the advantage that we can use native system prompts.