[OSM-talk] Permalink with marker

[Andrew Errington]

Hi,

I think that's slightly different to what I had in mind.  My suggestion was
to make a very simple way to make a map marker.  For example, if a friend
asks me where a restaurant is, or a park, I want to go to the map and
quickly create a link with a marker to send to my friend. I can paste the
link into email, or Facebook, or any chat program.

I can do this right now, but I need to edit the long permalink (or add "?m"
to the short permalink).  I'd like to skip this step.

Thanks,

Andrew



On 23 May 2013 15:40, christian.pietzsch at googlemail.com <
christian.pietzsch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> this would be really great. Another good thing would be if you could
> generate a permalink for searched areas.....for example: if you search vor Berlin
> and click on the first entrance the border Berlin city will be shown on the
> map....
> Maybe it would be possible to have a small Link symbol next to the search
> results.
>
> greetings
> Christian
>
>
> 2013/5/23 sabas88 <sabas88 at gmail.com>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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