1268095 - Display the Map inline instead of opening a browser

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[jongleur1983]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

- Open Address book,
- select a contact with a given postal address
- choose "Show Map" (Karte anzeigen)


Actual results:

the system browser is opened with a page displaying the map on the website of the selected provider, using the address to determine the right location


Expected results:

It would be great to embedd the map into thunderbird.
For OpenStreetMap this could even allow caching of the map tiles to enable viewing the map offline (which is one of the major benefits of thunderbird as a offline-enabled desktop mail client).
In general displaying a small map on the right when the contact information is on the left would be beautiful.

For other providers this might not be allowed or possible, so perhaps the map providers would require more than an address scheme to configure their behaviour.