[OSM-talk] Permalink with marker

sabas88 sabas88 at gmail.com
Thu May 23 06:36:20 UTC 2013


2013/5/23 Andrew Errington <erringtona at gmail.com>

> Hello,
>
> On the main map at osm.org there is a 'permalink' hyperlink, which
> generates a URL encoding the current view of the map.  It is easy to change
> this into a marker link by editing the URL and changing "lat" and "lon" to
> "mlat" and "mlon".
>
> Would it be beneficial to add another hyperlink which will do this
> automagically?  Maybe called "markerlink", which produces a URL containing
> "mlat" and "mlon".
>
> I know it means work for someone, but if it's a good idea then hopefully
> it can be implemented easily.  I don't know if it's been suggested before,
> but if such a feature were available I would use it a lot.  I often make my
> own OSM marker links to send to people by editing the permalink URL, so I'd
> appreciate a one-click function to do this.
>
> Comments please.  If it's a good idea I will submit it to OSM trac.
>
>
I like it, but should be considered also into the url shortening part (now
if you add marker via mlon and mlat and  make a shorturl it transforms it
in lon and lat..)


> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>

Regards,
Stefano


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