[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] node location not shown (#2814)

fkv1 notifications at github.com
Sun Sep 6 12:51:55 UTC 2020


What is a "valid" use? I often come across objects that look strangely placed (such as a shop outside a building or a cave in a river), so I look in the history of the node and the nearby nodes (building and river nodes in these examples) to see what happened and where they probably belong. Sometimes I see that objects I mapped myself carefully were meanwhile move by another user, so I need to compare current with previous node positions to decide how to proceed (accept edits / revert them / contact the user). In all of these cases, a link from each node version to the node position is VERY helpful, as otherwise we need to copy&paste the coordinates to an external tool. That's especially tiresome when it needs to be done for multiple nodes and for multiple versions of each node.
This is a feature that doesn't take additional space, performance or development time. All it needs is to add the mlat and mlon parameters to the existing links. I can't see what's wrong with those links when they are helpful and don't hurt. Web links have been the main feature of the WWW right from the beginning.

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