Easiest of all would probably be to include the marker by default, and let people edit it out if they don't want it.
Richard On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Andrew Errington <erringt...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I think that's slightly different to what I had in mind. My suggestion > was to make a very simple way to make a map marker. For example, if a > friend asks me where a restaurant is, or a park, I want to go to the map > and quickly create a link with a marker to send to my friend. I can paste > the link into email, or Facebook, or any chat program. > > I can do this right now, but I need to edit the long permalink (or add > "?m" to the short permalink). I'd like to skip this step. > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > > > On 23 May 2013 15:40, christian.pietz...@googlemail.com < > christian.pietz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi >> this would be really great. Another good thing would be if you could >> generate a permalink for searched areas.....for example: if you search >> vor Berlin and click on the first entrance the border Berlin city will >> be shown on the map.... >> Maybe it would be possible to have a small Link symbol next to the search >> results. >> >> greetings >> Christian >> >> >> 2013/5/23 sabas88 <saba...@gmail.com> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> 2013/5/23 Andrew Errington <erringt...@gmail.com> >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> On the main map at osm.org there is a 'permalink' hyperlink, which >>>> generates a URL encoding the current view of the map. It is easy to change >>>> this into a marker link by editing the URL and changing "lat" and "lon" to >>>> "mlat" and "mlon". >>>> >>>> Would it be beneficial to add another hyperlink which will do this >>>> automagically? Maybe called "markerlink", which produces a URL containing >>>> "mlat" and "mlon". >>>> >>>> I know it means work for someone, but if it's a good idea then >>>> hopefully it can be implemented easily. I don't know if it's been >>>> suggested before, but if such a feature were available I would use it a >>>> lot. I often make my own OSM marker links to send to people by editing the >>>> permalink URL, so I'd appreciate a one-click function to do this. >>>> >>>> Comments please. If it's a good idea I will submit it to OSM trac. >>>> >>>> >>> I like it, but should be considered also into the url shortening part >>> (now if you add marker via mlon and mlat and make a shorturl it transforms >>> it in lon and lat..) >>> >>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Andrew >>>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Stefano >>> >>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> talk mailing list >>>> talk@openstreetmap.org >>>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> talk mailing list >>> talk@openstreetmap.org >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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