Replying to myself, just to keep the thread together. I submitted a TRAC ticket, but it was rejected. I'm a little disappointed, especially as I wrote some code to do it. Yes, we could have something better later, but we could have something useful now. Oh well.
Best wishes, Andrew On 23 May 2013 15:01, Andrew Errington <erringt...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > Thanks, > > Andrew _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
