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

[Tom Chance]

Just to say that I do think the Export tab route is excessively complicated,
and that it's a shame the short links don't carry across markers.

Tom


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.
>
> 1. I am sure I saw a link in these mailing list where the the red diamond
> was replaced with an arrow. How was this done?
> 2. Is there an easy way to create the needed link?
> 3. Is there an easy way to create a link where the marker is not at the
> centre of the map (see below)
>
> I wanted to email a link to an osm map which pointed out the location of a
> building in a small wood. OSM would have been brilliant because the wood is
> mapped, but it I didnt have time to spend several minutes trying to create a
> link with marker. I ended up using http://www.multimap.com/maps/ because
> it allowed me to add a marker using the right-mouse button, and this marker
> does not need to be in the centre of the map. Multimap also provides a short
> url, eg http://www.multimap.com/s/TSOdvGZH
>
> I suppose I am hoping that in the future there is some way to replicate the
> easy method multimap provides.
>
> cheers
> Jason
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>
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