I would like to know if it is possible to display a map with a pin by passing the address data in the URL? That means: I dont know latitude and longitude of the address I want to display, I just know City, zipcode, street and housenumber. asked 16 Apr '20, 12:06 normannescio |
You'll find a lot of relevant information in this recent question. Simple answer is https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query= , but it has limitations. Regards answered 16 Apr '20, 14:10 H_mlet |
You can search by address by appending https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=221b%20Baker%20Street%20London ...but that won't show a marker on the map, at least until you hover the mouse over one of the Nominatum results. You can add a marker to the map by specifying latitude and longitude with mlat and mlon parameters: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=39.9155&mlon=4.1745 ...but there's no way to do that with just an address. However, if you're willing to do a two-step process, you can first query by address to get coordinates (you can use the Nominatum API directly, or just use the answered 16 Apr '20, 19:34 jmapb |