[OSM-talk] Permalink with marker

[Richard Mann]

Easiest of all would probably be to include the marker by default, and let
people edit it out if they don't want it.

Richard


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Andrew Errington <erringtona at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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