[OSM-talk] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

[RainerU]

Am 11.07.2013 05:08, schrieb Andrew Errington:
> On 11 July 2013 00:27, RainerU <ray66 at sfr.fr> wrote:
>> We should not start with the most difficult tasks. Lets take something easy,
>> which exists, but is not accessible for non-initiated people: creating a marker
>> and share it by mail. This is the most asked for function by people from outside
>> the project an up to now I just can tell: It's easy. Go to the export tab, chose
>> "HTML incorporable", set the marker, copy the text in the output field and
>> extract the string after the href attribute.
> 
> I don't think this procedure is easy for most people.  

Nor do I. This is made for developers and other IT experts but not for common users.

> I think it
> would be easier to have something like 'permalink', maybe called
> 'markerlink'.  If you click on 'markerlink' you would get a URL with
> mlat and mlon set to the centre of the map view.  You could copy and
> paste this into email or chat or whatever.

What I am proposing is what people need to indicate the location of their home
or their in a mail. It could be done by moving the set marker function from the
export section to the main map page and simplifying it, something like: click on
"set a marker", click on the map, a marker is created, you can move it around
and get a link by right clicking on it.

Rainer