[OSM-talk] Re : Permalink with marker

Thu May 23 09:50:07 UTC 2013

Good idea, but not with the default openlayer marker :)

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De : "Richard Mann" <richard.mann.westoxford at gmail.com>
Pour : "Andrew Errington" <erringtona at gmail.com>
Cc : "Talk Openstreetmap" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Objet : [OSM-talk] Permalink with marker
Date : jeu., mai 23, 2013 11:03
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:

Hithis 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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