Hello Frederik, thanks for your answer. The coordinate display at www.informationfreeway.org is what I was looking for. Wouldn't it be possible to integrate this function into the main OpenStreetMap site? I think this would definitely improve the attractiveness of the map display (even more, if degree-minute-second based coordinates would appear, too -- for many people, the decimal coordinates are not what they're used to).
In respect to the "select different area technique" etc.: While any true OSM enthusiast is of course able to help him/herself with tricks like this, I observed that it is rather difficult this way to convince not primarily technically interested people to give OSM a try. I am of course aware of the fact that OSM is a geographic data collection project and no nice-map-display-site but a really great map display/export facility on the main site would make it IMHO so much easier to make people use it and then join it :-) Thanks again, Ulf On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 18:23 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > > * a possibility to determine the coordinates of the mouse pointer > > (decimal or degree-min-sec or both) or a > > What you can always do is go to the export tab and select the "select a > different area..." option, then draw a rectangle and read its extent > from the four text boxes provided. > > You can also use www.informationfreeway.org which gives you the mouse > pointer lat/lon in the bottom right corner. > > Bye > Frederik > -- Ulf Mehlig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
