yes, that's indeed what I was looking for! time to switch my FF shortcut :)
the &loc syntax is not 100% user-friendly, but maybe that will be the occasion for me to contribute a few lines of code to the project, although I'm not sure I'm not the only one using gmap's from:...to:... shortcut Cordially, Kevin * I'm didn't register to the ml, so keep my address in CC for any reply On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Stefan Göckeritz <ad...@s-goecker.de>wrote: > Hey Kevin, > > did you see Dinnis' answer? There a number of not obviously docuimented > URL parameters which can be used to do excactly this. > You can use the "loc" paramter either with City names that are sent to > Geonomin for translation into geolocations or you could use longitude and > latitude directly. You can specify as many "loc" parameters as you like, > the first one is always START, the last one always STOP, all the others are > VIAs. > Also you can make use of a "dest" parameter with the same properties, but > there can only be one destination, should not be used in conjunction with > "loc" paramters. > The use case hereby is, you want to give a location and the user who gets > the URL sent can supply a custom start. The route will then be computed. > > Just have a look at the code in the repository. Should be the main.js > file, which parses all the URL parameters. > > Hope this helps. > > Regards > Stefan > > Kevin Pouget schrieb: > >> Hello, >> >> I just discovered the OSRM project, and it looks great, thanks for the >> work! >> >> There is one thing I'm looking for, that would make me switch from gmap >> to your project: >> I'd like to be able to use firefox url shortcuts to set the parameters of >> the trip. >> >> currently I use >> > map from:a to:b >> which is translated to >> > https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&; >> q=from:a+to:b <https://maps.google.com/maps? >> f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=from:a+to:b> >> >> >> as far as I've seen, OSRM can only generate short URLs like >> http://osrm.at/6n8, but maybe I missed something? >> >> >> thanks again for working on free mapping and routing, >> >> Kevin Pouget >> _______________________________________________ >> OSRM-talk mailing list >> osrm-t...@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osrm-talk >> >
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