<p>On <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load issue title" data-id="344727461" data-permission-text="Issue title is private" data-url="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1941" href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1941">#1941</a> I supplied the answer to "do many other sites offer this?" and in fact find that apparently all other sites offer this.</p>
<p>And if it were combined with Directions as an additional option other than Grasshopper, etc. right in the same menu, voila, you would have a way to supply permalinks to straight lines on the map, beating all services except Google Static Maps... but also having the distance shown. Beating them all!</p>

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