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can't activate "internal" search results

Open richlv opened this issue 10 years ago • 7 comments

search for some coordinates (like "N57 00.549 E024 07.196"), see the internal result being returned. click on it, notice zoom happening and marker appearing, try to zoom in on it... as soon as mouse cursor is moved away, marker disappears.

tested with opera 12.16 on linux

richlv avatar Jan 15 '15 12:01 richlv

I think this is deliberate - search results are highlighted as you hover over them. Otherwise there would be no obvious time when the marker could be removed again.

tomhughes avatar Jan 15 '15 13:01 tomhughes

but for object results (node, way etc) sidebar is opened and marker does not disappear. with the coord results, zooming/panning is very inconvenient as the marker disappears as soon as user gets to the map area. maybe similar sidebar could be used on the page to keep the coords "activated" ?

richlv avatar Jan 15 '15 13:01 richlv

agree If clicking on Nominatim results you are getting a sidebar and a outline of your request on your mapview. Clicking on a result from "Internal" or "Geonames" does nothing (expect the hover feature). This is inconsistent. User interactions like clicking shouldn't be ignored. I would expect a static marker for the clicked result when clicking.

jase88 avatar Feb 21 '15 21:02 jase88

The author of https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/5283 asked to have a cross-link to this github issue.

stephan75 avatar Feb 23 '15 16:02 stephan75

I noticed Robert Orzanna tweeted about this issue today, complete with animated gif: https://twitter.com/orschiro/status/713026546353700864

Maybe in the case of a coordinates result, when you click, it could just reload the page with a marker permalink URL (one like this I mean: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.50774&mlon=-0.12794 )

harry-wood avatar Mar 25 '16 00:03 harry-wood

Dear @harry-wood and others,

Indeed I tweeted about this problem yesterday.

I searched for exact coordinates and on click of the search result, I expected the marker to stay activated so that I can zoom into the map. However, the marker does not remain persistent.

Please let me know if I can provide any more details or help solve the problem.

Thankfully,

~Robert

orschiro avatar Mar 25 '16 07:03 orschiro

I also expected that activating an “internal” search-results coordinate would add its marker to the map. This is a frustrating issue.

NoSuck avatar Aug 24 '22 20:08 NoSuck