[OSM-talk] Working with lat and long simply

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

On 10/09/16 23:02, john whelan wrote:
>
> So essentially we're saying it's just a matter of documentation.  
> OSMand has the capability to display the lat and long of a poi as well 
> and this can be cut and pasted so it looks as if we can use lat and 
> long as an address system.
>
> Thanks John
>
I would not agree. It is not the case. Certainly, one can find 
coordinates of a node, or find them in a link produced in the Share section.

But there is no way to make a single click on a house and get two 
figures of latitude and longitude to the clipboard, or in a popup 
message box for copying. Not of a middle of the screen, not as part of 
an URL, but just of the place of the one click.

I encountered exactly this problem when I was trying to explain a person 
how to find coordinates for the Upload photo page of Wikimedia. I've 
made screen shots, where I showed the link from the Share of the OSM and 
how to cut latitude and longitude of a marker from this URL. It seems 
relatively simple for me, but this person said, - no it is too 
complicated and added the photo without coordinates.

Reverse Query: 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=51.5171393,-0.094835 does 
work, but it does not produce a marker pointing to the house. It 
requires formatting, - coma between, and if there is say semicolon 
between it does not work.

If latitude and longitude are to be used as an address system in the 
regions just getting online, extracting lat and long from the OSM should 
be in one click on a house while a marker appears on it after the click, 
and getting a marker back on this house via search on two real numbers 
separated by coma, semicolon, space, etc.

Best regards,
Oleksiy