[OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org
Ulf Mehlig
ulf.mehlig at gmx.net
Sat Oct 4 22:09:14 BST 2008
Thanks, Frederik and Steve!
I see Steve's point; especially coordinates at map borders within the
browser window would most probably not enhance map display. However, a
nice coordinate display like Frederik's wouldn't hurt, would it ;-) Many
thanks for the java script example.
In respect to map *export* I still think that an option to create map
borders with coordinates would be helpful. I did not find anything
especially helpful in respect to rendering of map borders in
mapnik/osmarender documentation. Can anybody give me a hint where to
look, or an example how to render an OSM-based map with such borders?
Thanks again, Ulf
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 02:40 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> SteveC wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The good thing about OSM is that we don't have to go for one or the
> other; we can have both.
>
> Ulf, with just a little bit of Javascript you can create your own
> version of an OpenStreetMap map, just like informationfreeway.org, and
> modify it to your heart's content.
>
> Here is an example that displays the mouse position in degrees, minutes,
> and seconds:
>
> http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/degrees.html
>
> (This was a bit nasty as the OpenLayers version currently used by
> informationfreeway, from which I simply copied the page, does not
> support easy overriding of the coordinate display; newer OpenLayers
> versions would only require 10 lines of code instead of the 30 lines or
> so I had to put in here.)
>
> Steve is right in saying that the general public doesn't know their
> latitude from their longitude and has no desire to be educated on this;
> but of course this does not keep us from making alternative
> OpenStreetMap pages aimed at people who do.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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Ulf Mehlig <ulf.mehlig at gmx.net>
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