Feature Request: Enhanced Sharing for Transitous

[maninthemiddle01]

First thank you for your awesome project :)

I just have a suggestion if #1656 could be considered: there is no share button for users to easily share their current view, especially when using the isochrones tab or when the map is activated.

So it would be nice if it'd be possible to add a Share button in the UI (e.g., in the top navigation or search results header).

• When clicked, this button generates a shareable URL that includes the current application state, such as:
  • Active tab (e.g., if the user is in the "Isochrones" tab).
  • Map activation status (e.g., if the map is visible and zoomed to a specific view).
  • [the above two things aren't possible right now if uses share the link]
  • Other relevant state like route options, time filters, etc.
• The shared URL could use a short-lived token or encoded state to reconstruct the view without directly embedding sensitive data in plain text.

[jbruechert]

The Web Interface is primarily for testing / debugging, and taken straight from MOTIS. We do not aim to provide a general end-user web interface currently.
MOTIS is completely stateless, so something like generating session specific links is out of scope for it.

[felixguendling]

From transitous.org

Transitous provides a free to use API that can provide journey planning in your app.

So to say it in another way, the Transitous community wants to create the tools and building blocks (APIs, collection of open transit data, running the routing server, etc.), so the open source community apps (see the list on transitous.org) can have features like you describe them. If you think those apps are lacking certain features, you could either contribute to those apps or alternatively create your own open source app (and add it to the list).

In MOTIS, we are planning to support the following feature which could be a building block that may help enable your use cases: motis-project/motis#998

[Lach-anonym]

From my POV, such button would be helpful, as I've added Transitous API site to the main screen as an app (via install app option) and for some reason my browser stopped showing the address bar for it, thus I cannot copy the link at all and I need to redo it again in the browser... (I couldn't find an option to make it appear again)
I don't know what is the situation for other browsers, but it might also happen elsewhere

[maninthemiddle01]

And my use case was that the only online service without an app supporting Transitous so far is Cartes, but it doesn't show the map in mobile browsers and it doesn't have a detailed itinerary view and isochrones yet. However, I wanted to share a link with the latter. You're absolutely right. I can definitely file an issue there.