Scale

[fritz3721]

on the bottom of the osm-maps there is a scale showing for example the length of 3 km. I think it would make sense to not show only one step there, but to have a longer line ranging from one end of the screen to the other, so that distances can be easily measured. A ruler-tool would abviously be helpful as well.

[mwallnoefer]

I strongly agree with @fritz3721's requirement of introducing a ruler respectively measurement tool (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Front_Page_Design#What_design_elements_should_be_in_the_page?).

This defect forces me regularly to interrogate alternative map services in order to get the desired information. If the routing feature has been located in the nodes' context-menu for a long time it should not be hard to add measurements too.

[fazlerabbi37]

I am not sure if you guys got it correct but I think the scale in the bottom is not for measuring distance or as measurement tool. It's a scale that compares the map representation with actual world measure, meaning 1 cm in the map is equal to 1 km in real world. And in tradition map it is always in one corner, not in a whole page. See more at Scale wiki page.

[mwallnoefer]

@fazlerabbi37 Scale is okay, what I asked for was about a measurement functionality as it is found in plenty of other map services (Google, Bing). Just open a node's context menu choose Measure distance from, open the target node and choose Measure distance to. OpenStreetMap already provides a similar functionality, the routing planner, but sometimes the linear distance comes more handy.

[fazlerabbi37]

A measurement functionality would be nice to have! But unfortunately, the devs are pretty jammed up with existing tasks so don't hold your breath.

OpenStreetMap already provides a similar functionality, the routing planner...

the route is provided by OSRM which is not a part of core code functionality.