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Is it possible to send a walklakes link to someone that will take them to a particular area with a particular map?
Yes. The basics of this are that you right click on a location and a red marker appears thus:
The chain symbol, highlighted by the red arrow above, is then a link - in this case https://www.walklakes.co.uk/maps/?m=326649|523409|9 which will take anyone clicking it to the same location.
So that's the first part of your question.
The caveat is that it doesn't do the second part "with a particular map?" - it defaults to whatever map the user gets when they enter the app. However that is solved by our new mapping app, which has currently only been publicised to supporters but you're free to try (it will be replacing the current app very soon now). This has works in exactly the same way but the link produced includes the map layer.
So here for example is a link to the same location displayed in our new app and using the OS tile layer:
Try clicking that and you'll see what I mean.
SheepFarmer and 2 others like this postThat's helpful thanks. Much easier to link to a location than describe to someone where that spot is.
I didn't know about that functionality. I'm sure you've got it in the instructions somewhere but I clearly haven't read them enough!
Likewise! - I too hadn't appreciated that this was available. - Will definitely come in handy! - (Thanks Paul and Beth).
Regards,
Mike.
Could we just have the url displayed all the time in the browser so that any map view was captured by copying it?
Like this nakarte.me view of Ben Nevis. The url constantly changes as the map is browsed. https://nakarte.me/#m=16/56.79736/-4.99380&l=O/Gbt
A quick tip- I just used this to a get link for a facebook post but found that facebook didn't turn all the text of the link into the clickable link, so when clicked on the FB version of the link I got a map with the marker in the sea instead of on the fell I wanted, but found that using a url shortener sorted the problem.
Thanks.....I've noticed Facebook doesn't identify the complete WalkLakes URL as a link. Your useful tip has been noted 
What do you use as a URL shortener?
So probably more for Paul, I've worked out that it's not just facebook as the same happens in Libre Office & it's the longitude part that gets chopped off & then this site then thinks it's zero degrees longitude. I've moked up a link below to show what happens - all the text of the link is there but only the underlined part is turned into the clickable link, It is supposed to be the middle of Derwent Water.
https://www.walklakes.co.uk/maps2/?m=54.5797|-3.1472|11|waymaps
For URL shortners for free with no account one not to use is shorturl.at as I used it & then my FB post got deleted from forum for rule breaking for promoting service outside of the subject area, as after a few hours it stop working & sent anyone using the link to their homepage. But searching I came upon tinyurl.com which I think I've used before, but thought it had gone like googles one but seems fine but no guarantee.
Ah, that's because I'm not (or wasn't) correctly quoting the vertical bars in the URL (as SheepFarmer spotted). I've replaced them with %7C in each case and Facebook now Does The Right Thing™.
SheepFarmer likes this postI think I've said this about one of your tweaks/ corrections before & that it's the little things that catch you out.
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