Well, BigTinCan maps does too. can make an arrow to point on the map. http://maps.bigtincan.com/#
.. it can also show different map renderings.. ?body=View my map at http://maps.bigtincan.com/?z=12&ll=49.118,-125.878&layer=000B00000TT (i needed to right click and save email address to get it to copy) Although the directions are only for Australia & New Zealand ... but it's not on the main website, so it doesn't really answer the OP question :) Sam On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Shaun McDonald <[email protected]>wrote: > In addition to the rest of the answers in the thread you can double click > to centre the map then copy the shortlink and add ?m to the end of the url > (assuming that your using the default Mapnik layer otherwise it's &m). > > Shaun > > On 1 Nov 2009, at 14:16, Jason Cunningham wrote: > > I asked early on in the year for way to add a marker to a map when I wanted > to give a link to a map that that pointed out a location. The answer given > was to get a 'permalink' then put an 'm' before 'lat' and 'lon' in the url. > The edited link then brings up a map with a red diamond at the centre of the > map. This is not user friendly because you have to move the map around and > guess when your location is at the centre of the map before getting your > permalink. It takes a few attempts to get it right. > > 1. I am sure I saw a link in these mailing list where the the red diamond > was replaced with an arrow. How was this done? > 2. Is there an easy way to create the needed link? > 3. Is there an easy way to create a link where the marker is not at the > centre of the map (see below) > > I wanted to email a link to an osm map which pointed out the location of a > building in a small wood. OSM would have been brilliant because the wood is > mapped, but it I didnt have time to spend several minutes trying to create a > link with marker. I ended up using http://www.multimap.com/maps/ because > it allowed me to add a marker using the right-mouse button, and this marker > does not need to be in the centre of the map. Multimap also provides a short > url, eg http://www.multimap.com/s/TSOdvGZH > > I suppose I am hoping that in the future there is some way to replicate the > easy method multimap provides. > > cheers > Jason > user:jamicu > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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