How can I create a link to a mobile friendly OSM site, based on arbitrary input? For example, a Twitter user's location may be `34.63677866,135.22868514` or `Oxford, UK` or `Düsseldorf`. I don't have any control over the format of text they input. That works fine with Nominatim (`https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=Whatever`), but the results are not mobile friendly. ![alt text][1] The regular OSM *is* mobile friendly, but I can't seem to find the syntax which will allow me to link directly to a search result. For example, [the documentation shows how to link to a Lat/Long][2], but not a search result. Ideally, I want to write something like: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?q=34.63677866,135.22868514 https://www.openstreetmap.org/?q=Oxford,UK https://www.openstreetmap.org/?q=D%C3%BCsseldorf I appreciate that there may be ambiguous results returned for search queries - but the first result is usually the best. Currently, the best I can do is `https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=oxford%2CUK` - but that takes me to a list of results. ![alt text][3] results: ![osm.org search results screenshot on mobile device][3] So, how do I link to the first result of a search in a mobile friendly manner? Thanks :-) [1]: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/837136/11017819/4c1b5d70-85a4-11e5-865b-83f134811ac9.jpg [2]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Browsing#Other_URL_tricks //wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Browsing#Other_URL_tricks [3]: http://help.openstreetmap.org/upfiles/14469437085940.jpg/upfiles/14469437085940.jpg

How can I create a link to a mobile friendly OSM site, based on arbitrary input? For example, a Twitter user's location may be `34.63677866,135.22868514` or `Oxford, UK` or `Düsseldorf`. I don't have any control over the format of text they input. That works fine with Nominatim (`https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=Whatever`), but the results are not mobile friendly. ![alt text][1] The regular OSM *is* mobile friendly, but I can't seem to find the syntax which will allow me to link directly to a search result. For example, [the documentation show shows how to link to a Lat/Long][2], but not a search result. Ideally, I want to write something like: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?q=34.63677866,135.22868514 https://www.openstreetmap.org/?q=Oxford,UK https://www.openstreetmap.org/?q=D%C3%BCsseldorf I appreciate that there may be ambiguous results returned for search queries - but the first result is usually the best. Currently, the best I can do is `https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=oxford%2CUK` - but that takes me to a list of results. ![alt text][3] So, how do I link to the first result of a search in a mobile friendly manner? Thanks :-) [1]: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/837136/11017819/4c1b5d70-85a4-11e5-865b-83f134811ac9.jpg [2]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Browsing#Other_URL_trickshttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Browsing#Other_URL_tricks [3]: http://help.openstreetmap.org/upfiles/14469437085940.jpg

How can I create a link to a mobile friendly OSM site, based on arbitrary input? For example, a Twitter user's location may be `34.63677866,135.22868514` or `Oxford, UK` or `Düsseldorf`. I don't have any control over the format of text they input. That works fine with Nominatim (`https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=Whatever`), but the results are not mobile friendly. ![alt text][1] The regular OSM *is* mobile friendly, but I can't seem to find the syntax which will allow me to link directly to a search result. For example, [the documentation show how to link to a Lat/Long][2], but not a search result. Ideally, I want to write something like: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?q=34.63677866,135.22868514 https://www.openstreetmap.org/?q=Oxford,UK https://www.openstreetmap.org/?q=D%C3%BCsseldorf I appreciate that there may be ambiguous results returned for search queries - but the first result is usually the best. So, how do I link to the first result of a search in a mobile friendly manner? Thanks :-) [1]: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/837136/11017819/4c1b5d70-85a4-11e5-865b-83f134811ac9.jpg [2]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Browsing#Other_URL_tricks

How can I create a link to a mobile friendly OSM site, based on arbitrary input? For example, a Twitter user's location may be `34.63677866,135.22868514` or `Oxford, UK` or `Düsseldorf`. I don't have any control over the format of text they input. That works fine with Nominatim (`https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=Whatever`), but the results are not mobile friendly. ![alt text][1] The regular OSM *is* mobile friendly, but I can't seem to find the syntax which will allow me to link directly to a search result. For example, [the documentation show how to link to a Lat/Long][2], but not a search result. Ideally, I want to write something like: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?q=34.63677866,135.22868514 https://www.openstreetmap.org/?q=Oxford,UK https://www.openstreetmap.org/?q=D%C3%BCsseldorf I appreciate that there may be ambiguous results returned for search queries - but the first result is usually the best. So, how do I link to the first result of a search in a mobile friendly manner? Thanks :-) [1]: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/837136/11017819/4c1b5d70-85a4-11e5-865b-83f134811ac9.jpg [2]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Browsing#Other_URL_tricks