[OSM-talk] Working with lat and long simply

[john whelan]

If you use OSMand find the POI then menu, search by location it displays
both the latitude and longitude of the POI these can be cut and pasted in
the normal way.  This works if you're offline by the way.

Barcode addresses can be created in qr4 format
http://blog.qr4.nl/QR-Code-Navigation.aspx which apparently when scanned
can invoke OSMand centred on the location.

Cheerio John

On 10 Sep 2016 11:50 pm, "Oleksiy Muzalyev" <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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