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

[Josh Doe]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

This is a known problem (
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/376).
Specifically check out this site, which demonstrates a potential change to
osm.org:
http://mapui.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/

Click the share button on the right, then check "Include marker". You can
now drag this marker where you want.

-Josh
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