Incorrect Wikipedia Link URLs

druki shared this problem 14 hours ago
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In some of the OSM data POIs, there are URLs to Wikipedia that are having spaces or special characters that should be encoded for a propper URL.

In such cases, Locus blocks the saving of such POIs into User POIs, because it recognizes the not propper URL.


This not optimized URL could be corrected in OSM, but this is a bigger efford for the Locus users (create a OSM acvount, learn to maintain OSM data etc.). It is much easier to correct the URL at creating the LoMaps.

Just do a check on the URL and replace not allowed charaters with theis coresponding encoded cjaracters. Example: space should be replaced with %20.


Until this is done automatically, the best workaround for user is to copy the not optimized URL in a browser and then vopy&paste the optimizes URL (yes, browsers can correct this) to the POIs URL field.


An other idea could be to adapt the URL check at saving POIs in Locus to accept spaces and special characters.


An example of such a POI with a space is: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/99471691#map=16/56.87524/-5.43149

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