Update route summary tooltip with correct time and correct URL Routing #51
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Time is reported wrong in route summary tooltip when hovering over route. Apply same fix as used in Issue valhalla#12
Use # instead of / for correct URL routing
Correct URL routing for directions and isochrones
wdcsimon
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This seems wrong, can you elaborate here?
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Basically "directions" or "isochrones" are not physical files, but handlers, so they should follow a # rather that a / as this provides correct URL routing. If we use the / then if a user does a browser page refresh, they end up generating a 404-error page, by using the # we avoid this potential issue. See https://maps.whanganui.govt.nz/routing to see this in action.
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Basically "directions" or "isochrones" are not physical files, but handlers
Right, as a web dev noob I figured that's mostly syntactical in real life if using / or #.
What I can see on your demo page, it's not properly resolving permalinks, i.e. page refreshes fail to parse the full URL into a parameterized version of the web app. E.g. this: https://maps.whanganui.govt.nz/routing/#directions?profile=bicycle&wps=175.02682766786324%2C-39.91050190801741%2C175.04880524660373%2C-39.93498734998717, would generate a route from the waypoints on https://valhalla.openstreetmap.de/.
Wouldn't you also have to update the function which parses the URL from a permalink?
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Though I'm still open to adhering to proper standards (if that's what it is), but another point is people already pointing to the app, in all the issues in upstream Valhalla etc. If there's no really good reason to change it, I wouldn't like to include that in the merge, it'd mess up all existing links (I know I can tell Apache to deal with this, but again, needs a good reason for me).
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Good point about the permalink, the # doesn't help with that. Will look at how that can be resolved.
Probably better to stick with the / at the moment.
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I think @chrstnbwnkl convinced me about the #, I always wondered why so many SPAs do that. Anyways, I guess we'll just need to update the URL parsing function to trigger permalinks on #. I'd guess it could be done in a backwards-compatible way so that old / URLs are still resolved properly, e.g. from open Valhalla issues. There's custom code in the app for that, I remember.
If you don't have the time for that @wdcsimon let us know and we'll handle it at some point. Thanks anyway!
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Time is reported wrong in route summary tooltip when hovering over route. Apply same fix as used in Issue #12
Correct URL Routing for directions and isochrones