> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The problem I see is, other than pointing to </span><a href="http://planet.openstreetmap.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">planet.openstreetmap.org</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> I'm not sure where else we would send them?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">> While there are lots of other places to get things like regional extracts they are unofficial third party sites so I don't think that we should be referring people to them from the main site.</span><div>
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I think pointing people to jXAPI could work, or one thing. And, the whole 'unofficial third party sources' bit isn't that strong; <a href="http://planet.osm.org">planet.osm.org</a> points to third-party sources, and so does the wiki.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">In short, they exist and are useful, and I think it makes sense to reduce the number of logical leaps you need to take to get from A to B, because I'd assume a ton of people are getting lost along the way.<br>
</font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Eric Marsden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric.marsden@free.fr" target="_blank">eric.marsden@free.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
>>>>> "fr" == Frederik Ramm <<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a>> writes:<br>
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fr> In Wikipedia, all user-to-user messages are automatically public<br>
fr> (unless both parties agree to take it to email). Maybe food for<br>
fr> thought - do we need private messages at all? There seem to be<br>
fr> quite a number of bullies in OSM who send self-important messages<br>
fr> to lesser experienced mappers explaining "their" rules... that<br>
fr> could be stopped if all messages were public.<br>
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Are you talking about the OSMF DWG?<br>
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Eric Marsden<br>
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