<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Shaun McDonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shaun@shaunmcdonald.me.uk">shaun@shaunmcdonald.me.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 3 Oct 2008, at 07:06, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:<br>
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SteveC <steve <at> <a href="http://asklater.com" target="_blank">asklater.com</a>> writes:<br>
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On 1 Oct 2008, at 11:01, Ulf Mehlig wrote:<br>
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Hello Frederik, thanks for your answer. The coordinate display at<br>
<a href="http://www.informationfreeway.org" target="_blank">www.informationfreeway.org</a> is what I was looking for. Wouldn't it be<br>
possible to integrate this function into the main OpenStreetMap<br>
site? I<br>
think this would definitely improve the attractiveness of the map<br>
display (even more, if degree-minute-second based coordinates would<br>
appear, too -- for many people, the decimal coordinates are not what<br>
they're used to).<br>
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Just demonstrably not true. Most people don't know what co-ordinates<br>
are or care that they don't know. It would just clutter the map and<br>
make us look less usable.<br>
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I could well imagine that there are people who would like to feed the<br>
coordinates of some place they have found from the OSM map into their GPS for<br>
navigating. Not that the coordinates need to be visible all the time.<br>
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For that you can use the permalink to get the latitude and longitude. That's what I do on a regular basis. By the time you know what latitude and longitude is, you will know what a permalink is.<br><font color="#888888">
</font></blockquote><div><br>I knew about latitude and longitude about 25 years before hyperlinks were even invented, let alone permalinks. <br><br>Although I'm slightly suprised by the fact that google has roughly twice as many hits for permalink than for longitude.<br>
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Shaun<br>
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