Funnily enough, that link you sent through should actually work and do exactly what you want, I'm not sure why it didn't. This one does:
http://openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-36.88887&mlon=174.75006&zoom=15&layers=0B0FTF&lat=-36.88822&lon=174.7553 I don't think there's a simple way to create those links other than just recentering the map where you want the marker, clicking on permalink and then putting "m" in front of the lat/lon parameters. John On 1 Sep 2008, at 09:17, robin paulson wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
