OpenStreetMap
Does anyone know if the searchbox supports some form of coordinate? These did not work: “N:39°47’03″ E:78°33’41″” “39°47’03″ 78°33’41″”
Are there any plans of supporting widely used formats of coordinates?
This seemed to work: “38.5807 77.2605” but gave 2 results.
Discussion
Coment di AkuAnakTimur ai 23 di February 2019 a lis 03:23
This format should work: e.g. 1N 1E and 1S 1W
Coment di AkuAnakTimur ai 23 di February 2019 a lis 03:31
On top of that, reversed order should work too e.g. N1 E1
Coment di pangoSE ai 23 di February 2019 a lis 10:11
I think we should support as many ways of writing coordinates as possible. E.g. N:39°47’03″ E:78°33’41″ or 39°47’03″ 78°33’41″.
Coment di andy mackey ai 23 di February 2019 a lis 17:48
Degrees.degrees works fine, is simpler to use in my opinion. there seems to be lots of coord converters on the net if you have the need. Best we stick to the system used here from the start.
Coment di Riccardo Stagni ai 23 di February 2019 a lis 22:41
This is the format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_degrees
I assume you get two results because if you write “38.5807 77.2605” the search engine cannot know which number is the latitude and which is the longitude (the two results have the same coordinates but swapped).
If you add N/S E/W to the coordinates you will get an unique result: osm.org/search?query=38.5807N%2077.2605E#map=17/38.58070/77.26050
Coment di Adriano Cunha ai 24 di February 2019 a lis 12:58
Degrees are simpler and avoid confusion.
IMHO, the search engine should assume latitude first.
It would be a waste of resources to try to support every possible notation - there will always be another one. Google has billions of dollars and it doesn’t do it.