[OSM-talk] How do you easily add a location pointer to maps on main website?

2009-11-01 Thread Jason Cunningham
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

Re: [OSM-talk] How do you easily add a location pointer to maps on main website?

2009-11-01 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/11/1 Jason Cunningham jamicu...@googlemail.com 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

Re: [OSM-talk] How do you easily add a location pointer to maps on main website?

2009-11-01 Thread David Earl
On 01/11/2009 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. ... I suppose I am hoping that in the future there is some way to replicate the easy method multimap provides.

Re: [OSM-talk] How do you easily add a location pointer to maps on main website?

2009-11-01 Thread Tom Chance
Just to say that I do think the Export tab route is excessively complicated, and that it's a shame the short links don't carry across markers. Tom 2009/11/1 Jason Cunningham jamicu...@googlemail.com I asked early on in the year for way to add a marker to a map when I wanted to give a link to

Re: [OSM-talk] How do you easily add a location pointer to maps on main website?

2009-11-01 Thread David Earl
On 01/11/2009 15:54, Tom Chance wrote: Just to say that I do think the Export tab route is excessively complicated, and that it's a shame the short links don't carry across markers. +1. If only I had the time, I'd do something like this: present a map to which you can freely add multiple

Re: [OSM-talk] How do you easily add a location pointer to maps on main website?

2009-11-01 Thread malenki
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: well, if you doubleclick on the desired location and then adjust the zoomlevel you don't have to guess, just do it ;-) Or shift + draw a rectangle with the left mouse button. just my 2 p malenki ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] How do you easily add a location pointer to maps on main website?

2009-11-01 Thread Shaun McDonald
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

Re: [OSM-talk] How do you easily add a location pointer to maps on main website?

2009-11-01 Thread Sam Vekemans
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=12ll=49.118,-125.878layer=000B0TT (i needed to right click and save email address to get it to

Re: [OSM-talk] How do you easily add a location pointer to maps on main website?

2009-11-01 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/11/1 malenki o...@malenki.ch Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: well, if you doubleclick on the desired location and then adjust the zoomlevel you don't have to guess, just do it ;-) Or shift + draw a rectangle with the left mouse button. won't help him (he's after the center, not a fast way