osm-7

On the Share dialog box below, explain the functionality of each of the numbered items.

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The share button lets you save/share an OSM map view either as a link to the view, a embeddable bit of HTML so you can put it on, say, a blog, or as an image file. The top half of the dialog is for HTML and the bottom half for image files.

1. Check the box if you want to have a marker on the object in the shared map.
2. Three buttons for three forms of web-ready data: an ordinary html link, a shortened link, or embed HTML. Whichever you choose appears in the box below for copying to the clipboard.
3. Click if you want to select a region of the currently visible map view. Otherwise you get the whole view.
4. Select image file format (PNG, SVG, JPG, or PDF)
5. Set the scale. This has the effect of changing the pixel size of the output graphic.