[OSM-talk] How do you easily add a location pointer to maps on main website?

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Sun Nov 1 14:48:09 GMT 2009


2009/11/1 Jason Cunningham <jamicuosm at googlemail.com>

> I asked early on in the year for way to add a marker to a map when I wanted
> to give a link to a map that that pointed out a location. The answer given
> was to get a 'permalink' then put an 'm' before 'lat' and 'lon' in the url.
> The edited link then brings up a map with a red diamond at the centre of the
> map. This is not user friendly because you have to move the map around and
> guess when your location is at the centre of the map before getting your
> permalink. It takes a few attempts to get it right.
>

well, if you doubleclick on the desired location and then adjust the
zoomlevel you don't have to "guess", just do it ;-)

cheers,
Martin
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