[OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

[Ulf Mehlig]

Hello Frederik, thanks for your answer. The coordinate display at
www.informationfreeway.org is what I was looking for. Wouldn't it be
possible to integrate this function into the main OpenStreetMap site? I
think this would definitely improve the attractiveness of the map
display (even more, if degree-minute-second based coordinates would
appear, too -- for many people, the decimal coordinates are not what
they're used to).

In respect to the "select different area technique"  etc.: While any
true OSM enthusiast is of course able to help him/herself with tricks
like this, I observed that it is rather difficult this way to convince
not primarily technically interested people to give OSM a try. I am of
course aware of the fact that OSM is a geographic data collection
project and no nice-map-display-site but a really great map
display/export facility on the main site would make it IMHO so much
easier to make people use it and then join it :-)

Thanks again,
Ulf

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 18:23 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >       * a possibility to determine the coordinates of the mouse
pointer
> >         (decimal or degree-min-sec or both) or a
> 
> What you can always do is go to the export tab and select the "select
a 
> different area..." option, then draw a rectangle and read its extent 
> from the four text boxes provided.
> 
> You can also use www.informationfreeway.org which gives you the mouse 
> pointer lat/lon in the bottom right corner.
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 
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 Ulf Mehlig    <ulf.mehlig at gmx.net>
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