Add a map "ping location" to communicate a map position to other players

I never had reason for this. Did you really ever have the problem where east, north, south and west was not enough? If so, a Map Ping should maybe be included.. or a permanent marker for each player that he can set and move as he wishes.

The bug tracker is a good place for feature requests, just mark it as Importance: "Wishlist"

Oh well, there is always a way to talk (write) somebody to an exact location - sure.
I admit it's a luxury feature. I thought, as this already exists inside the editor (though permanently, which I wouldn't like in the game)
it might be easy to do.
A permanent marker would be seen by anybody participating in the game, and so less versatile.
We like to play 2 on 2 coalitions with 2 different teamspeak session, and I would primarily want the feature
to inform my partner about what I plan to do next.
But a decent way to reference a location would help for
other things, too - like bugs or replays etc.

seems like you are pro. 2v2 and teamspeak ;). About time for a widelands tournament I guess.

Nah, not really ... the teamspeak server is not my work - I'm merely allowed to facilities
my son and his crowd use - but they're more into other games...
Thanks for the confirmation :)

Note that debug builds show x and y coordinates in the upper left corner along with some other information.

However, if the goal is to notify some part of the map, I wonder if this could be marked as a duplicate of bug 835564?

Setting to incomplete for bug sweeping.

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Based on the title change for this bug report, I wonder if it might be better to mark this as a duplicate of bug 835564, which already contains some ideas and discussions on how to implement this.

Agreed. I think coordinates really get the player out of the immersion of the game, we should avoid communicating them if possible.