How to obtain a bounding box for use with OSM tools

There are a few sites out there (e.g. http://osm.duschmarke.de/bbox.html and http://bboxfinder.com/) that allow the selection and display of a bounding box.

The main OSM site itself used to do this (see trac here), but no longer does - and since routing went live, the last OSM dev site that supported it has gone away.

What I'm looking for is:

Something to create a bounding box, that works across platforms and across window managers
Something to display a bounding box in the "usual" OSM format (as used by the API etc.)

It'd be nice if it also allowed the display of different tiles too - either layers available on osm.org or elsewhere.

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asked 20 Feb '15, 12:29

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There’s now a section addressing this on the wiki: Visually defining a bounding box

(04 Sep '22, 22:53) Andrew Kvalheim

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7	I can offer http://tools.geofabrik.de/calc/#type=geofabrik_standard&bbox=5.538062,47.236312,15.371071,54.954937&tab=1 but it's not perfect either. permanent link answered 20 Feb '15, 12:39 Frederik Ramm ♦ 82.5k●92●720●1273 accept rate: 23%

4	Mine is http://norbertrenner.de/osm/bbox.html, but no display. permanent link answered 20 Feb '15, 13:13 ikonor 1.3k●2●11●19 accept rate: 18%

1	Another one: http://harrywood.co.uk/maps/uixapi/xapi.html permanent link answered 30 Apr '15, 18:24 SomeoneElse ♦ 36.9k●71●370●866 accept rate: 16%

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