[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Pushing Cursor Coordinates to Clipboard as Soon as Possible (Issue #3900)

[Andy Allan]

@dusko23 Thanks for the additional explanation of how your application works, which you provided in the associated pull request. In short, your have an application to show maps to search and rescue personnel, and to achieve this you've created a web component that includes the entire openstreetmap.org website within that application.

I'm happy that this use case (embedding the entire website within a third-party application) is not something that we support, and I'm happy to decline features based on this use-case. Our primary focus is on our community of mapping volunteers, and that is the primary use-case for our site. However, unlike other mapping solutions, we also make available both the underlying map data, and also various map services (like map tiles from the OSMF tile server) available for third-party use. There are various ways that you could achieve the result that you are looking for, such as:

* Use a mapping library within your application, and load map tiles from the OSMF tileservers. See the [OSMF tile usage policy](https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/). You can then implement menus, links etc in your application.
* Create your own website, even just a static page with a Leaflet map, that shows map tiles. You can then add your own context menu, links, or whatever you need, and embed that site within your application. 
* Either of the above, [using tiles from another provider](https://switch2osm.org/providers/)

There's no need to embed the whole openstreetmap.org website in your application and then ask for features to be added to our site to support your application.

(I should note here that I'm not recommending any particular solution to you, since your activities might be prohibited by the [OSMF Terms of Use](https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use) ("Dangerous businesses such as emergency services"))

Despite the fact that I'm not supporting this feature request based on your own use case, it's still worth considering whether the feature is useful enough for volunteer mappers to include it anyway. However, given the responses that I've seen, I'm also happy that there's no significant use case here.

So thank you for your feature request, but based on the above I'm going to decline it.

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