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

Maarten Deen mdeen at xs4all.nl
Wed Sep 29 12:21:44 BST 2010


On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:12:11 +0200, Frank Fesevur
<ffes at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 2010/9/29 Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl>:
>> 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.
> 
> Doesn't work... at least not for this coordinate: N 52° 03.595 E 004° 16.983

Ok, I tried it with e.g. 55.60 80.22. That works.

Apparently anything extra does not get parsed as a location. But this
is Nominatim search, I guess it can be extended to recognize more
inputs.

Regards,
Maarten



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