On Monday 29 March 2010, Tom Chance wrote: > If you have any particular powers over Google and Microsoft... :-) > > As mentioned, I can and do use a different URL shortener for now, but it is > a UI element right there on the home page that will lead to people sending > around broken links. That can't be good. > > If geohashes or some other system can be implemented - tinyurl, bit.ly etc. > doesn't seem to use punctuation marks - that would be great.
A quick solution for this would be for the osm server to accept an alternate character for '-'. An underscore or tilde perhaps, or do these cause similar behaviour? RFC4648 base32 proposes '='. robert. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
