[OSM-talk] how to see lat lon on map

Maarten Deen mdeen at xs4all.nl
Wed Sep 29 11:53:27 BST 2010


On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:08:18 +0530, Tanveer Singh
<tanveer1979 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a set of lat lon coordinates.
> On maps.google.com [1], I just enter that in the search field and
> click go, and it shows me that. however, no such feature in OSM. Of
> course I can edit the URL to point to lat/lon, but copy pasting a set
> of coordinates is much easlier.
>  anyway to do that in OSM?

In OSM it works the same. There is a search box to the left of the
screen, you can enter a lat/lon pair there and the search comes back
with a link to that location.

It is one click more than what google offers.

Regards,
Maarten



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