Share favorite locations

[anaqreon]

My understanding is that currently the only way to share static locations stored in a user's "favorites" is by exporting them to a GPX-formatted file, either exporting all favorites or favorites in a selected category. This GPX file may then be shared in the standard ways file sharing is supported in Nextcloud.

It would be very useful to have the ability to share a favorite group "directly" with either (1) Nextcloud account holders (the same way files can be shared with access control based on authenticated Nextcloud accounts) or (2) via public link, where the practically-impossible-to-guess shared link opens the Maps app in a public view-only mode that displays the shared favorites group on the map. In the case of shares with local Nextcloud account holders, the shared favorites would appear alongside the user's own favorites, perhaps under a collapsible/toggleable "Locations shared with you" navigation section.

[escoand]

I would like to share not only the favorites but also a selection of my pictures/contacts/devices/...

[tacruc]

@escoand: for the pictures and contacts, just share it via the files/contact app and they will popup on the map of the other user.
Let's discuss device sharing in an own Issue, as it is more complicated than favorite share. (most of the time you do not want to share a device (i.e. your phone) forever, but just for a limited time, like a live location in whatsapp).

[jancborchardt]

Yup, let’s focus on sharing sets of Favorites here. First version could be to just get a read-only link to a map view with the favorite places marked on the map.

[escoand]

@tacruc but I would also be interested in sharing to non-users by URL. Maybe as live holiday tracking or so.
Sharing images, tracks and favourites separately would not help in this case.

[jancborchardt]

@anaqreon see my comment above. ;)

First version could be to just get a read-only link to a map view with the favorite places marked on the map.

And we will see from there. Step by step.

[paulschwoerer]

I'd be happy to have a go at a basic version to share favorites with other users on the same server. Is anyone already working on this?

[jancborchardt]

@paulschwoerer very cool! As far as I can see, no one is working on this.

Best would be to just have a "Share" icon left of the 3-dot menu of a favorite row, just like it is in the Files app.

Then there’s 2 ways:

• Either we have a simple 2nd step in the popdown (with ActionInput) showing a search field and the people this is already shared to. Kind of like the color picker by @ma12-co Create ColorPicker component nextcloud-libraries/nextcloud-vue#571
• Or we introduce the right sidebar to the Maps app. To be honest I find it a bit overkill at this stage.

This is also why I would start the sharing not with people on the same server but rather only getting a share link you can send out to anyone. It’s very simple, doesn’t need a list and it works with anyone directly. :) (As mentioned above at #70 (comment) )

What do you think?

[paulschwoerer]

I agree that introducing the right side at an early stage like this is overkill. Might make sense in the future though, once the sharing functionality is further ahead. I'll familiarize myself with the code and see what I can come up with.

On a sidenote: Are there plans on adding in VueJS, like the core project and other nextcloud apps are doing? Maybe this question is off-topic and could be answered in a pm.

[jancborchardt]

I'll familiarize myself with the code and see what I can come up with.

Cool! Feel free to open up a pull request early so we can communicate about the direction and design. :)

Are there plans on adding in VueJS, like the core project and other nextcloud apps are doing?

I don’t know how familiar @eneiluj and @tacruc are with Vue.js, but yes, ideally we would use that too especially now that we have more and more in the compontent library. They will have to comment on that. :)