[OSM-talk] Map display with orange bounding box

[Toby Murray]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Dave F. <davefox at madasafish.com> wrote:
> Is there a utility to allow a user to draw a boundary box like this & get a
> permalink for it?:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?box=yes&bbox=-2.59472%2C51.39784%2C-2.55551%2C51.42825

You should be able to use the XAPI frontend:
http://openstreetmap.us/uixapi/xapi.html

Zoom in and then hold down shift while dragging the mouse to draw a
bounding box. Then check the "search by area" checkbox and copy the
bbox=a,b,c,d that appears in the URL on the bottom of the page. Just
be sure to leave out the closing ]

Toby