Proposal: Option "Show on OSM" in waypoint panel

[rumbrummer]

I think it would be helpful to have the optiin “Show selected waypoint on OSM” in the panel, which appears on the left side when selecting a waypoint:

[Patrick]

I assume you already know about the right-click menu, where this option is already present?

You suggestion is to show it in the sidebar additionally? Gotta say I’m sceptical about that, seeing that is has a good home together with google maps and mapillary there

[rumbrummer]

@Patrick

you already know about the right-click

Yes - but that does not work in app. Perhaps I should have put this thread in “App”, not in Routing.
Edit: Shall I move it ?

[boldtrn]

@rumbrummer

Yes - but that does not work in app.

In the app this works by simply tapping on the map. You would have to tapp slightly beside the waypoint to get the right view. I am not sure we should add too many redundant buttons in the different overlays.

[Hobbyfahrer]

@boldtrn

In the app this works by simply tapping on the map. You would have to tapp slightly beside the waypoint to get the right view.

It works great

[rumbrummer]

@boldtrn

You would have to tapp slightly beside the waypoint to get the right view

That was also my workaround - but trying to reproduce the bug

Bug in "Show on OSM"

Very frequently this function does not work properly and results in an error shown on OSM webpage. I have the impression the root cause is a bug in identifying an OSM object and pointing to that, therefore I propose to switch back to old solution: Just take the coordinates of the selected point and show them on OSM. I had this effect many times (~30x), in many cases it helps to choose a point which is away from any road / object, but in many cases the function snapped to a wrong object (even b…

I saw that the exact position was important. So the idea was to place a waypoint for that.
A furtber benefit matching exactly the waypoint is getting OSM info (if that waypoint is based on a OSM node) - so it would be helpful to get the exact coordinates.

[boldtrn]

@rumbrummer

A furtber benefit matching exactly the waypoint is getting OSM info (if that waypoint is based on a OSM node) - so it would be helpful to get the exact coordinates.

Ok I see, that makes sense, but to be honest, I am not convinced this is a common request. So right now I still feel like, we should not do this, sorry to disappoint you here - if we find a common use case, I am always happy to discuss this again

[rumbrummer]

I fully agree - this proposal has low priority anyway, and I understand that it will increase complexity and so reduce the readability of waypoint panel.
And - of course - as long as this idea (I would not call it a request, just a proposal, usually I do not request anything ) is not very common, it should not be impemented.