now that auckland's got pretty good coverage, i've been using it for map links to send to people, rather than relying on other services. the problem is, it can be difficult to indicate where exactly i am showing them to go
e.g. i sent someone directions to my house, and along with the link to the map, had to tell them the street name, and whereabouts on the street i was (in between street A and B). all of this is a bit clumsy, and relies on there being other distinguishing marks nearby. is there anything in openlayers that let's a user arbitrarily place a marker - say a bright red arrow - on a map, to highlight a point, and the send a link that includes the marker? to give a link something like: http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=-36.798&lon=174.397&zoom=15&layers=0B0FTF&mlon=-36.798&mlat=174.397 where: mlat is the latitude of the marker, and mlon is the longitude of the marker? ah, looks like there is: http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.6/doc/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Marker-js.html from the ol docs any chance of adding this to the main map, administrators? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
