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Nice. I love the choice of basemaps, including the lovely Thunderforest ones which you don't see many places!

I liked the download as KML - it loaded up okay in Google Earth. Would be good to have map state in the URL bar, e.g. map position and probably basemap selected for sharing which I would imagine is in your list.

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Thanks! Yes, position is definitely on our list, as well as to linking to individual points. Can you explain how would you use the basemap in the URL bar? If you select a basemap on your own map, it'd be saved so there is no need to overwrite it in the URL.

Ahh yes it is saved, but since it's possible for any user to change the basemap of any map in their own session (but not save it) they may want to have that choice persist if they then share it further. It's a possibility I guess. You could use a short code to show base=T1 for example

I see, so you would like to have the option to override the basemap by an URL parameter before sharing! Noted.

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