The proposed system sounds good and the front page designs are starting to look really sleek. But... I was talking about this to some people at FOSS4G last week. I think its really important that there is a map on the first page that someone comes to - preferably an interactive one. I've been experimenting with some IP geocoding, without much success which may be becuase I am in the Isle of Man at the moment. Has anyone tried this:
<br><br><a href="http://www.hostip.info/use.html">http://www.hostip.info/use.html</a><br><br>Skyhook produced a firefox plugin a few months back that geocodes from IP address:<br><br><a href="http://loki.com/download/">http://loki.com/download/
</a><br><br>As I remember, it works quite well. So, we could prerender Osmarender images and display an image map that is relevant to the user's location - at the country level, on the front page. This would be a good comprimise beteween showing the existing map and having no map at all.
<br><br>Nick<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Dixon</b> <<a href="mailto:paul@elphin.com">paul@elphin.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>><br>><br>> Could something similar work for us? Would someone like to hack<br>> something like it on top of trac?<br>><br>They are planning on making their volunteer page easier to reuse:<br><a href="https://secure.mysociety.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=648">
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