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 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 > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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