On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>wrote:
> I found the marker dragging feature mentioned by Peter Wendorff under "Add > a note to the map" (currently last button on the right), but I can't use > because I only need a private marker, I don't have anything to tell the > mappers. I don't know if after confirming the note one gets a link to the > marker or point. > The "Share" feature with double-click centring doesn't help because as > said by others the centering is not precise nor intuitive. > To share a specific point on the map, ideally with a marker, I > have to: > 1) double click somewhere around the point in question, > 2) take the long link in the "Share" view, > 3) edit it to get the coordinates separated by a comma, > 4) enter them in the search bar and confirm, > 5) click the search result link to get the marker, > 6) repeat 1-5 as many times as needed to actually get the point I'm > interested in (I gave up after second attempt because it looked random). > All this in Google Maps requires: > A) right click, "centre the map". > So while it may be true that no other mapping websites use double click to > centre the map what's important is that they do offer such a crucial > feature like selecting and sharing a point on the map, and now OSM does not > any longer, which makes it useless for a good proportion of the use cases I > have for it. > This is a known problem ( https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/376). Specifically check out this site, which demonstrates a potential change to osm.org: http://mapui.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/ Click the share button on the right, then check "Include marker". You can now drag this marker where you want. -Josh
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