OpenStreetMap
The OSM website now has a context menu (right-click menu)!
Käyttäjä mcld kirjotti tämän 18. Februarya 2017 kielellä EnglishIt gives me great pleasure to announce that the OpenStreetMap website now has a context menu! Also known as a right-click menu:
You might not think this is big news, but I do. A few people asked for this feature in the past, and eventually I proposed some code for it. It took 18 months for the proposal to be merged into the website codebase - why? Primarily because OSM is built and run by volunteers with limited time, but also because my Javascript skills weren’t quite up to adding the important polish and tests that are needed for production-ready code. A million thanks to Tom Hughes for improving my not-quite-finished proposal, and for all the feedback that helped me understand how to do things right.
Discussion
Kommentti käyttäjältä DaCor 18. February 2017 klo 19.47
Nice work!
Kommentti käyttäjältä Zsul 18. February 2017 klo 23.20
Thanks! I was always struggling with route planning. I had to find a named object near the origin and an other one near destination, type the names and hoped it finds the right places. Now I can just point and click. It is much more straightforward.
Kommentti käyttäjältä Guest One 18. February 2017 klo 23.30
Great! Thanks!
Kommentti käyttäjältä Stalfur 19. February 2017 klo 02.18
Excellent work. Now how do I mark a particular tile dirty? Before I could do Open image in a new tab and mark it…
Kommentti käyttäjältä Minh Nguyen 19. February 2017 klo 04.29
Note that you can also drag the green and red pins next to the To and From boxes to the route’s start and destination. This context menu is more convenient, of course – thanks for this improvement, mcld!
In Firefox, you can go to Tools ‣ Page Info, switch to the Media tab, and look for the tile you want to dirty. You can also use this tool to determine the coordinates to insert in
http://c.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png/dirty. See this article for more details on tile URLs.Kommentti käyttäjältä mcld 19. February 2017 klo 10.13
@Stalfur if you’re using Firefox, use SHIFT-click to get the “original” context menu back.
Kommentti käyttäjältä artus70 19. February 2017 klo 14.41
@mcld or, to say it even more clearly: SHIFT-right_click resp. SHIFT-CTRL-click on a Mac.
Kommentti käyttäjältä dikkeknodel 20. February 2017 klo 03.18
@mcld @Tom Thanks for this great feature, I’ve been doing workarounds for years. @Minh Nguyen I did not know that drag and drop solution unfortunately, that is actually quite useful! Thanks for that too.
Kommentti käyttäjältä PlaneMad 20. February 2017 klo 13.28
Thank you for your work mcld! This opens up room to add so many more features that anyone using to a modern map these days is used to.
Kommentti käyttäjältä Omnific 22. February 2017 klo 23.24
Fantastic job!