OpenStreetMap
Dear OSM-devleopers,
it's not possible to generate and show a simple marker-link-adress in the export-function, additional to the iframe? That would be made easier to use Openstreetmap also for people, who don't have so much computer- or web-developping- expierience.
It's every time very cumbersome to find and copy out the marker-link-address from the iframe-code and it's too much complicated for non-expierenced users.
Thanks a lot.
have nice day
Kart-o-Graf
Discussion
Comment from Andy Allan on 11 July 2011 at 14:35
It's perfectly possible, but nobody has got around to it yet. We're all volunteers and all have our own todo lists and priorities, and it'll only happen when it (eventually) becomes the number 1 priority for one of the developers.
If you don't have the development abilities yourself, then you could either learn how to do it, or try to make it someone else's #1 priority! Maybe find some developers, buy them a pizza or find something that they would like done in return.
Comment from Kart-o-Graf on 11 July 2011 at 14:52
thank you for your answer, Andy.
> If you don't have the development abilities yourself, then you could either
> learn how to do it,
Ok. and if I want to learn it or rahter have already some developement abilities, how can I get the source-code of OSM and how to send own code to the project?
Comment from Sanderd17 on 11 July 2011 at 17:14
The solution to your problem is very simple. Just click on the "permanent link" link on the main map, and if you replace lat by mlat and lon by mlon, you have a marker on the center of the map (you just need to aim that center).
This is more an interface problem than a real coding problem, and I would suggest to not put time in the interface until there is a routing engine on the main page. The routing engine needs to work with the permalink and also needs to work with markers.
Comment from Harry Wood on 12 July 2011 at 00:42
Hi Kart O Graf
"how can I get the source-code of OSM and how to send own code to the project?"
Glad you asked. We'd love to have more developers helping out. The website is a ruby on rails app. There's some description of how this is set-up on The Rails Port wiki page. Also Rails_port/Development for details of where the code is (a git repository e.g. site.js)