Would replacing the hyphen by %2D cure the problem? Steve
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert Scott" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 3:04 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OSM shortlinks problem > 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 _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
