http://trac.openstreetmap.org/changeset/16271
yeah, it was originally =, but changed to - to work with twitter. given that the characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _, @, - and = have already been used, what's the next best character? ~? +? cheers, matt On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding to dev as requested. > I think it has been noticed already, it can also break in applications such > as twitter. But is anything going to be changed? > I understand avoiding the ending character from being non-alphanumeric(not > letters or numbers) would mean a serious rewrite of how the shortlinks are > made/decoded. How much longer would short links be if all digits were > alphanumeric only? > Also the code is public so people can create these themselves or decode > them, has anyone actually done that? > On 29 March 2010 02:34, Tom Chance <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> One for devs really but I'm not on the list. Perhaps someone could pass >> this on? >> >> I've noticed that the osm.org shortlinks ending with a dash "-" often >> don't work in emails. The dash gets missed off from the link. In my area, at >> least, this seems to move the centre slightly and switch from zoom level 17 >> to 18. >> >> For example this: >> http://osm.org/go/euut_VcMR- >> >> Gets interpreted as this: >> http://osm.org/go/euut_VcMR >> >> Is there any chance the shortlinks could avoid ending in a punctuation >> mark? >> >> Regards, >> Tom >> >> -- >> http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> > > > > -- > Gregory > [email protected] > http://www.livingwithdragons.com > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
