[OSM-talk] Working with lat and long simply

[Craig Wallace]

On 2016-09-10 21:23, john whelan wrote:
> 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.

Click on "Where am I?", then it gives you the latitude/longitude for the 
centre of the map.
Or click the "Share" button, then it gives several formats of URLs that 
include the latitude/longitude.