How to embed a coordinate pair within URL to search OpenStreetMap, Google, Yahoo or Bing Maps

Question

Is there a way to embed a latitude longitude coordinate pair within a url link to search for a location on either OpenStreetMap, Google and/or Bing Maps? I'd like to use the url link within Excel, LibreOffice and within an html pages. I have tables with coordinates that I'd like to configure with a link to show its location on a map, without building an online mapping application.

If not, then is there a simple javascript that I can encapsulate the coordinate within and fetch that from OpenStreetMap, Google and/or Bing Maps?

It seems like the url would be something like the following, but I can't get this to work: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?30.486,-90.195

Answer 1

there is a way of doing it. Example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=12.345&lon=12.345&zoom=17&layers=M fomr here

For google there is a similar question

Bing example - http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=53.02102351~-1.48398532&lvl=16&dir=0&sty=c as taken from the question posted here

Answer 2

These days you can just copy the URL from your browser address bar which should look something like this (with your example coordinates) :

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/30.486/-90.195

(Note: this dynamically updated '#' character URL structure was introduced some time after the original question was asked)

OpenStreetMap offers quite a lot of other options for linking to the maps, some of which are available by clicking the "Share" button to access a right-hand panel there. These are also described on the documentation about browsing the map.

e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=30.486&mlon=-90.195#map=16/30.486/-90.195 ...puts a marker at those coordinates

http://osm.org/go/Tu_z5cFR ...as a 'short link' (redirects)

http://osm.org/go/Tu_z5cFR?m ...a 'short link' with marker

You can actually slap in a coordinate pair "30.486,-90.195" with a comma into the search box on the OpenStreetMap homepage, and that gives you a link to click, which dynamically zooms you to that spot, although you can also right click to open the link in a new window at a URL formatted as above.

If you want a frame embeddable map, use the Share panel 'HTML' option documented here which gives you HTML like this:

<iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://www.openstreetmap.org/export/embed.html?bbox=-90.20224,30.48102,-90.18775,30.49097&amp;layer=mapnik" style="border: 1px solid black"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=30.485995000000003&amp;lon=-90.194995&amp;zoom=15&amp;layers=M">View Larger Map</a></small>

Contained with that is a URL like this...

http://www.openstreetmap.org/export/embed.html?bbox=-90.20224,30.48102,-90.18775,30.49097&layer=mapnik

All of these URL formats could be generated by Excel using a formula to go from the lat/lon values in two other cells.

Answer 3

1. If you click the Permalink button at the bottom right of the screen, it will give you the syntax you want.
   http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=30.486&lon=-90.195&zoom=8&layers=M
   You can chop off the zoom level and layers if you don't need them.

2. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=30.486+-90.195 (the + is necessary)