Author: TomH
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.34am, Wednesday, 11th September 2013]

As far as I know the marker has always been removed when the search pane is closed - without that there would be no way to remove it without reloading the page.

If it didn't get removed then I would consider that a bug that is now fixed.

Author: richlv
[Added to the original trac issue at 6.26pm, Thursday, 12th September 2013]

hmm, that's a shame... previously i very often closed the search pane and used the map with the marker still there - very useful, especially on not-so-large displays (search pane covers quite some area).

i find current behaviour quite inconvenient...

i'm not reopening the ticket, but i'd still love to see the old behaviour back - if removing the marker w/o page reload is an issue (has anybody really wanted to do that ?), there could be a possibility to click on it, which would show search terms/results in a popup and some control to remove the marker. or clicking it could reopen search pane, which would have another option "remove" in addition to "close"

for me, just leaving the marker there is fine ;)