<p>Oh that's interesting. I only noticed this feature request because of the PR. Meanwhile, I was happily using URLs of the form:</p>
<p><a href="http://openstreetmap.org/directions?route=%3B51.0957%2C-1.2990">http://openstreetmap.org/directions?route=%3B51.0957%2C-1.2990</a></p>
<p>This works, but it works by affecting the <code>route</code> parameter (which puts from and to into one parameter) rather than <code>from</code> or <code>to</code>. Also it seems to require explicit co-ordinates rather than search terms.</p>
<p>It seems kinda funny that we have these two parallel schemes. I have no idea if there's a reason for each. But the URL scheme I describe seems to satisfy the motivation for the original request, even though it may be desirable to fix the asymmetry between <code>from</code> and <code>to</code>.</p>
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