Idea: Auto-centering maps, based on location data in a note

[Moonbase59]

I came across a new use case today: Auto-centering maps, ideal if one is on the road a lot.

Some friends and I myself sometimes travel a lot. Now that we are getting Obsidian mobile, or work on a GPS-enabled laptop like myself, it is relatively easy to write a script that automatically updates a note’s YAML with the current (real-world) location. Or just manually enter my current location in my own "Myself" note.

Since Obsidian Leaflet is so amazing getting location and overlay data from notes and auto-updating the maps, I find myself using a two-map note most of the time: One of the maps shows the whole country, the other one the place I currently stay, with a radius of approx. 10–25 km.

To make things even more comfortable, it would be just great to have this second "where-I-am" map

• automatically centered to the place I currently stay (from a note’s YAML location:), and maybe even
• showing the radius specified in the nearby: YAML of my "Myself" note.

This would mean getting the lat: and long: code block entries from another note’s location: YAML data, by somehow specifying the note, i.e. [[Matthias C. Hormann]] or "People/Friends & Family/Matthias C. Hormann".

Regarding the radius (or zoom factor), it would also mean reading the specified overlayTag (if any) from that note’s YAML, and possibly translating that to a zoom factor (?), defaulting to the defaultZoom in the code block.

I already experimented with using inline Dataview (like =[[Matthias C. Hormann]].location[0]) and Templater but that of course doesn’t work easily in a code block.

I have no idea if this appeals to you, or you’d like to think about it, since it is more of a "comfort function", but I think it might be a great addition. Let us know!

[valentine195]

So basically, finding an initial lat/long from a note instead of specifying it in the code block.

I like it, easy enough to implement. I think it would be a new parameter tag in the code block - I'll think of a tag.

[Moonbase59]

More than I expected, thanks a bundle in advance!