[OSM-talk] Permalink with marker

[Andrew Errington]

I don't think it's any easier for the end user.  Instead, it causes the same 
problem for people who *don't* want a marker, plus the 'permalink' feature is 
already well-established.

Best wishes,

Andrew

On Thu, 23 May 2013 18:03:54 Richard Mann wrote:
> 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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