Location shares could send thumbnails

[ara4n]

Steps to reproduce

1. Send a loc share on low data
2. See a blurred placeholder thumbnail as both sender and receiver
3. Wonder why it didn’t send an actual image thumbnail of the loc share, like we would have on an image xfer

Outcome

What did you expect?

Sender could capture an image thumbnail of the location and send it as an extensible event thumbnail.

This could backfire if it uses the wrong theme or i18n or location though, so perhaps it’s not the best idea

What happened instead?

Random blurred placeholder thumbnail

Your phone model

No response

Operating system version

No response

Application version

796

Homeserver

No response

Will you send logs?

No

[pixlwave]

Wouldn't this result in slowing down the location share until there's

a) enough bandwidth to load the map tiles needed to create the thumbnail.
b) the thumbnail had been uploaded.

Considering the steps described above, as far as I can tell this wouldn't improve the experience for the sender as they would be staring at an unsent location for longer than they would the blurred placeholder 🤔