SteveC <steve <at> asklater.com> writes: > On 1 Oct 2008, at 11:01, Ulf Mehlig wrote: > > > 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). > > Just demonstrably not true. Most people don't know what co-ordinates > are or care that they don't know. It would just clutter the map and > make us look less usable.
I could well imagine that there are people who would like to feed the coordinates of some place they have found from the OSM map into their GPS for navigating. Not that the coordinates need to be visible all the time. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
