On 19 June 2013 01:35, Richard llom <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 16.06.2013 15:52, schrieb Andrew Errington: >> >> On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:30:26 Richard llom wrote: >>> >>> when searching for an address on www.openstreetmap.org one gets now a >>> really nice view, see here for example: >>> http://666kb.com/i/cezsdgzn07n0aap3l.png >>> (textorstraße 9 Würzburg) >>> >>> But how can I send this to a friend? >>> >> >> Once you click on Permalink, the URL will encode the view you were looking >> at. >> The lat and lon in the URL is the latitude and longitude of the centre of >> the >> view. If you edit the permalink and change lat to mlat and lon to mlon >> you >> will get a marker at the centre of the view. You can send the edited >> permalink to your friend, and they will see the marker. >> > OK, thanks thats nice. > But unfortunately it works only with permalink (ie. longlinks). If I add the > marker and choose shortlink in the new window, I still get the view with no > marker at all... :-( > > >> I have proposed a feature like this (adding a 'markerlink' in the same way >> as >> a 'permalink') but it's not always possible to implement everything, or it >> takes some time or manpower that is not available. If we had this feature >> I >> think it would be useful for exactly your situation. >> > Yes, please keep proposing. :-) > I miss this feature since a very long time and IMHO this is a very basic > feature...
Another thing you can do is right-click on 'Shortlink' and select 'Copy link' then paste the URL somewhere and add "?m" to the end of the link text. This will give you a short link that makes a marker at the centre of the map view. It's still cumbersome though. I think a one-click solution would be better. Best wishes, Andrew _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
