This issue is for discussion of the use case “Display a region of map data as a static image”, its examples & list of required capabilities.

Ironically, sometimes an HTML author wants to provide a simple static map that provides some other mappiness (a pushpin or two, for example). It would be good to be able to 'freeze' a map at a location, perhaps using a CSS property, or possibly, though not preferably, an attribute. Being a map, it would still be "georeferenced" for crawlers' sake only, perhaps. But it could use back-end services like WMS or tile caches to provide visual and non-visual semantic context.