[OSM-dev] The new link on the OSM map

[Peter Wendorff]

Hi Maarten,
the benefit with the new link format, where position and layers are
constantly stored in the part after the hash (#) is that browsers don't
need or assume to need a reload.
If you change the address (before the #) completely, a reload of the
page is necessary, that was the case up to the change.
Now it's not necessary to reload the page to get the correct link in the
address bar.
What you complain is of course an argument straight in the opposite
direction, but both ways are perfectly valid.
You are in fact right that it's not possible any more to determine from
the link which part of the coordinate is latitude and which is
longitude, but it's consistently the same any time, so that's not that
big problem either.
Probably the hash format could better be extended by lat/lon to be
something like #z=15/lat=51.2/lon=8.7

Your complaint about reloading the page to get the initial view back is
IMHO an unusual one as it assumes that you go to the page with a direct
link to a defined position; something which is possible with osm.org,
but something nobody cared about in the last days probably.
For this wish I don't have a solution combining your demand with the
benefits of the new hash-format, but probably even there is a solution
possible.

regards
Peter

Am 08.08.2013 09:16, schrieb Maarten Deen:
> On 2013-08-08 09:08, Maarten Deen wrote:
>> Very nice that the main map now shows a link as standard, but why does
>> the format have to be changed? Now JOSM needs to be changed because it
>> does not recognise this type of link.
>> What was wrong with the old lat= and lon= style? From this link I can
>> not see what the latitude and longitude is. I have to know in which
>> order it is.
>>
>> I'm sorry, but IMHO this is yet another step backward.
> 
> Added complaint: before, I could zoom in, move the map, do whatever I
> wanted and then reload the screen and I got the initial view back. Now
> the map link changes when you zoom or move the map, making it difficult
> to get the initial view back. You have to remember to copy the link and
> than paste it back again otherwise you will never get the initial view.
> Please get the old style link and working back. The fact that there is
> no direct visible link to the map is now the least of the problems.
> 
> Regards,
> Maarten
> 
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