<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 17 Jun 2009, at 18:17, Joe Richards wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">One of the main annoyances that people tell me that they have with OSM<br>is that whenever they visit the site, the map shows them just the UK.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></span></div></blockquote>I checked it (from other random computers, not my laptop) when I was in Thailand and Australia and it always showed the UK. Is the UK the default if IP resolution fails?<br></div></div></div></div><br></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It will default to the following if nothing else works (from url, cookie, user home location, session cookie, and GeoIP)</div><div><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.1&lon=-0.1&zoom=5">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.1&lon=-0.1&zoom=5</a></div><div><br></div><div>The code of the algorithm is at </div><div><a href="http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/rails_port/app/views/site/index.html.erb#L55">http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/rails_port/app/views/site/index.html.erb#L55</a></div><div><br></div><div>Shaun</div></div><br></body></html>