Talk:Browsing

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Linking to the map

We need user manual help information detailing ways of linking (getting a URL) to the map. Maybe on this Browsing page, or off a different page such as 'Linking'. I would write it myself, but I don't actually know! -- Harry Wood 11:10, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

The way to do it is like

http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=52.1&lon=-0.45&zoom=12

Replace lat and long with the desired location. Ojw 12:12, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

mmmmm yeah but does that mean you have to know a lat and long and zoom level? We need a way to browse the map, and then get a URL to what we're looking at. Guess that's a bit tricky with a AJAX "slippy map". Google have a special "Link to this page" link for getting a URL. -- Harry Wood 09:59, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Just click on the "view" tab and the URL for the map you are looking at will be loaded.. Erik Johansson 10:18, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Aha! You see that's what I'm talking about! :-) -- Harry Wood 10:34, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

This doesn't put anything in the URL to represent the current layer. So if I want to link to the Osmarender layer, is that possible with current URL params? -- Harry Wood 16:32, 19 April 2007 (BST)

Key

The main map page needs a key to describe the different things on the map. On the part of the map I was looking at it had 4 different coloured roads but no description of why they are different. --User:Barnaclebarnes 20:57, 25 October 2007

Yeah we probably should have a map key/legend, although it would be quite big, so probably needs to be a seperate linked page, or a DHTML layer perhaps. Dont know what plans there are to implement something like that. I noticed Steve8 made legends appearing on a one-off render: User:Steve8#Map Legend

In the meantime you'll see quite a few rendering examples on Map Features page. That's not exactly what you're after, because it's cluttered with tagging information, but you can see what the road colours mean -- Harry Wood 12:01, 26 October 2007 (BST)

There is a link "Map key" in the left navigation bar, quite hidden. We should extend that and make it more prominent - maybe by placing it in *in* the map, next to the new "Permalink" for example. --Colin Marquardt 15:37, 26 October 2007 (BST)

Oh! So there is! -- Harry Wood 15:44, 26 October 2007 (BST)

Markers broken?

Are markers broken at the moment?? (Browsing#Adding a Marker) Doesn't seem to be working for me. -- Harry Wood 12:26, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

I can confirm that, same effect here, both in Firefox and IE... Dawidi 19:49, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

It's been fixed -- Harry Wood 23:04, 3 June 2008 (UTC)