a-b-street/abstreet

Add more startup flags / URL parameters

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#666 opened on May 26, 2021

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Use case: In https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/nlprut/biking_hills_map/, it would've been nice to toss &layer=steep_streets in the URL.

Any other shortcuts missing and likely useful? Maybe info panels too -- &info=b47, with the value using https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet/blob/9fc79b1089dbe8ff8a881325f9e3a4f4c30c1e8f/game/src/common/warp.rs#L165

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Examine the URLManager and flag parsing code in the game/src directory to understand how new URL parameters can be added, and implement support for layer and info parameters similar to existing ones.
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