[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Howto retrieve permalink

[Dan Karran]

(moving to dev)

On 8/13/07, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping at web.de> wrote:
> Steve Chilton schrieb:
> > Could someone who has access to editing map home page put a brief "howto" note about permalinking?
> > In fact it would be good if it was linked to a wiki page about permalinking, adding marker, and also adding marker but centring NOT on the marker, which I saw someone had a formula for.
> >
> To be honest, I think the informationfreeway.org way of simply showing a
> "permalink" link is *much* more intuitive than the current way osm maps
> handles this.

I agree. I've always known that the 'view' link provides a permalink,
but it's not very intuitive. So I think adding a 'permalink' on top of
the map would be a good way to do it.

> In fact till today, I didn't even know how to do it in osm, but the
> informationfreeway.org way was clear to me from the very first day.
>
> There should be enough space, e.g. below "Map key" to show a permalink.

I've been experimenting a little tonight with trying to add the
standard OpenLayers permalink to the map, but it's not using the right
units for lat and long. What was changed on InformationFreeway to make
this work?


Cheers,
Dan

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