[OSM-talk] Double-clicking on OSM map does not centre the map

Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki at gmail.com
Tue Jul 30 13:49:22 UTC 2013


I found the marker dragging feature mentioned by Peter Wendorff under 
"Add a note to the map" (currently last button on the right), but I 
can't use because I only need a private marker, I don't have anything to 
tell the mappers. I don't know if after confirming the note one gets a 
link to the marker or point.
The "Share" feature with double-click centring doesn't help because as 
said by others the centering is not precise nor intuitive.
	To share a specific point on the map, ideally with a marker, I have to:
1) double click somewhere around the point in question,
2) take the long link in the "Share" view,
3) edit it to get the coordinates separated by a comma,
4) enter them in the search bar and confirm,
5) click the search result link to get the marker,
6) repeat 1-5 as many times as needed to actually get the point I'm 
interested in (I gave up after second attempt because it looked random).
	All this in Google Maps requires:
A) right click, "centre the map".
So while it may be true that no other mapping websites use double click 
to centre the map what's important is that they do offer such a crucial 
feature like selecting and sharing a point on the map, and now OSM does 
not any longer, which makes it useless for a good proportion of the use 
cases I have for it.

Federico



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