Hello everyone, i am often faced with to problem, that i need the center point of a selected object in the OSM map. I know that one can use Nominatim to determine the coordinates; but this very cumbersome and breaks my workflow. Practically, i estimate the center and take its coordinates; but this is not accurate. Wouldn’t it be reasonable to have the center point automatically displayed in left info box (above the tags) of the selected object? I think that this is a general use case because for further use of geographical objects (even if they are ways or relations) most tools and programs only support coordinates input. Best regards, Arnd
It might be useful to know what that workflow is? Most things that you might want to do with OSM data have some way to get at a centroid (there are several ways that you could define "the centre of an OSM object). Just as one example, the OSM vector tiles used by the “shortbread map” on osm.org have centroid data in them, and you can use a debug map style to show that.
Not really, we rather use Overpass to get the center of an object if we need it.
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