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

[Shaun McDonald]

On 3 Oct 2008, at 07:06, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:

> SteveC <steve <at> asklater.com> writes:
>> On 1 Oct 2008, at 11:01, Ulf Mehlig wrote:
>>
>>> 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).
>>
>> Just demonstrably not true. Most people don't know what co-ordinates
>> are or care that they don't know. It would just clutter the map and
>> make us look less usable.
>
> I could well imagine that there are people who would like to feed the
> coordinates of some place they have found from the OSM map into  
> their GPS for
> navigating.  Not that the coordinates need to be visible all the time.
>
>

For that you can use the permalink to get the latitude and longitude.  
That's what I do on a regular basis. By the time you know what  
latitude and longitude is, you will know what a permalink is.

Shaun

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