On 11 July 2013 00:27, RainerU <ra...@sfr.fr> wrote: > Am 10.07.2013 15:50, schrieb Serge Wroclawski: >> >> Let's take a two examples: 1) Routing on the main site. 2) Addressing >> missing from OSM > > We should not start with the most difficult tasks. Lets take something easy, > which exists, but is not accessible for non-initiated people: creating a > marker > and share it by mail. This is the most asked for function by people from > outside > the project an up to now I just can tell: It's easy. Go to the export tab, > chose > "HTML incorporable", set the marker, copy the text in the output field and > extract the string after the href attribute.
I don't think this procedure is easy for most people. I think it would be easier to have something like 'permalink', maybe called 'markerlink'. If you click on 'markerlink' you would get a URL with mlat and mlon set to the centre of the map view. You could copy and paste this into email or chat or whatever. I proposed this idea to the Mapnik team, and I wrote the code to do it, but it was rejected. I think if we had clickable POIs it would be better- I would expect a right-click to offer a menu which would include the option to make a permalink for the POI, or left-click would pop up a window with more details of the POI and had a option within it to make a permalink. The more I use Naver maps (a mapping service from the Korean web portal "Naver") the more I like what they have done and they way they do it. The URL is http://map.naver.com/ and although it's all in Korean you can click around and play with a few features. Just off the top of my head, here are some things you can do: * clickable POIs * highlight POIs (all restaurants, all banks, all gas stations etc.) * on-screen ruler (draw a line and it calculates the length) * routing (provides driving directions, cycling directions, walking directions and bus and train journey details. It also estimates the taxi fare for that journey) * aerial photo view * street view I think it's better than Google maps, and there is another Korean portal called Daum with similar features (http://map.daum.net/?t__nil_bestservice=map). I have also mentioned before, just recently, that Naver has an attribution for OSM, but I don't know how they are using OSM data. Having said that, I like to use the OSM main map a lot of the time. Best wishes, Andrew _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
