[OSM-talk] Working with lat and long simply

[john whelan]

I'm not sure that it is an issue.  If the lat and long can be extracted in
the way that Nomination can handle it isn't an issue.

The bigger issue at the moment is how do you extract the lat and long
easily?  Downloading a bit of OSM into JOSM, saving the file as .XML then
using something like notepad++ to manually extract the values isn't a very
practical way for nonmappers to extract the values.

Cheerio John

On 10 Sep 2016 4:09 pm, "Imre Samu" <pella.samu at gmail.com> wrote:

> >...nominatim ...
> >It is currently inconsistent, and that's a problem for those without a
> PhD in GIS.
>
> If you have a suggestions ->  Nominatim issues:
> https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim/issues
>
>
> 2016-09-10 21:34 GMT+02:00 john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>:
>
>> The issue isn't that nomination won't handle lat and long it is that you
>> cannot cut and paste from the xml code.  "lat='45.472891'
>> lon='-75.4891002'" doesn't work.  You have to know enough or have the
>> instructions to hand to strip off the unwanted lat= and lon=.
>>
>> It is currently inconsistent, and that's a problem for those without a
>> PhD in GIS.  One solution could be a write up in the wiki.
>>
>> Cheerio John
>>
>> On 10 September 2016 at 15:27, michael spreng <talk at osm.datendelphin.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/09/16 17:43, john whelan wrote:
>>> > However dig it out of the xml code and drop it into Nomination and you
>>> > get an error.  lat='45.472891' lon='-75.4891002'
>>> What kind of error do you get? Works for me:
>>> http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=45.4729+-75.4891
>>>
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