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

[Sam Vekemans]

Well,
BigTinCan maps does too. can make an arrow to point on the map.
http://maps.bigtincan.com/#

.. it can also show different map renderings..
?body=View my map at
http://maps.bigtincan.com/?z=12&ll=49.118,-125.878&layer=000B00000TT
(i needed to right click and save email address to get it to copy)

Although the directions are only for Australia & New Zealand
... but it's not on the main website, so it doesn't really answer the OP
question :)

Sam

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Shaun McDonald <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk>wrote:

> In addition to the rest of the answers in the thread you can double click
> to centre the map then copy the shortlink and add ?m to the end of the url
> (assuming that your using the default Mapnik layer otherwise it's &m).
>
> Shaun
>
> On 1 Nov 2009, at 14:16, Jason Cunningham wrote:
>
> 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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