On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Shaun McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > On 3 Oct 2008, at 07:06, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > > 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. >> >> >> > For that you can use the permalink to get the latitude and longitude. > That's what I do on a regular basis. By the time you know what latitude and > longitude is, you will know what a permalink is. > I knew about latitude and longitude about 25 years before hyperlinks were even invented, let alone permalinks. Although I'm slightly suprised by the fact that google has roughly twice as many hits for permalink than for longitude. 80n > > Shaun > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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