It is unnecessarily difficult to share geo data between apps in Android. Pick a location in one app and share it with your navigation app? Nope. Park the car in maps and send the location to your smart watch? Nope. Apart from a few exceptions, it is all just impossible.

I don't know if it's by design to keep you from using a competitors app, or if there is just no good standard for geo data in Android and few apps ended up using the same format, but I needed some 3rd party app to convert the geo data for me. I used Map2Geo (catfish.android.map2geo) plus the 'url injector' (catfish.android.map2geo.urlinjector) by Catfish for that. For a while life was uncomplicated. Someone could send me a message with a Google Maps location url and I could simply choose to open it in OsmAnd or Flitsmeister. Then, Map2Geo got removed from the Play Store. There is a mirror with the original description, but I can only assume it was sending the locations to an external service to be converted, unacceptable to Play Store privacy policies and frankly to mine as well. But I am not sure. Better safe than sorry however.

Now I have become increasingly frustrated not being able to do simple things that I know are technically possible. If someone sends me a link from their favorite location app, I have to open that specific app or their specific website in stead of my favorite app. I have searched everywhere for an alternative. I can't even find others asking the same question. Am I missing something? Is there a similar tool that does the conversion between apps locally, and not on some service that may sell your geo data?

I previously asked this on Android Stack Exchange but was recommended to ask here in stead.

It is unnecessarily difficult to share geo data between apps in Android. Pick a location in one app and share it with your navigation app? Nope. Park the car in maps and send the location to your smart watch? Nope. Apart from a few exceptions, it is all just impossible.

I don't know if it's by design to keep you from using a competitors app, or if there is just no good standard for geo data in Android and few apps ended up using the same format, but I needed some 3rd party app to convert the geo data for me. I used Map2Geo (catfish.android.map2geo) plus the 'url injector' (catfish.android.map2geo.urlinjector) by Catfish for that. For a while life was uncomplicated. Someone could send me a message with a Google Maps location url and I could simply choose to open it in OsmAnd or Flitsmeister. Then, Map2Geo got removed from the Play Store and I cannot install it on my new phone. There is a mirror with the original description, but I can only assume it was removed from the Play Store with good reason. Although the app appears safe, I can't trust third parties. Better safe than sorry.

Now I have become increasingly frustrated not being able to do simple things that I know are technically possible. If someone sends me a link from their favorite location app, I have to open that specific app or their specific website in stead of my favorite app. I have searched everywhere for an alternative. I can't even find others asking the same question. Am I missing something? Is there a similar tool on a trusted source that does the conversion between apps locally, and not on some service that may sell your geo data?

I previously asked this on Android Stack Exchange but was recommended to ask here in stead.