<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You're right – it needs to be a bit clearer that there's more than one map available, perhaps the right way to do this though is to make the layers box a bit more obvious, and give the various layers rather more user friendly names, so that people will experiment with a few of them.<div><br></div><div>Tom Davie<br><div>
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<br><div><div>On 30 Dec 2011, at 14:51, Russ Nelson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Frederik Ramm writes:<br><blockquote type="cite">For me, the idea of a user friendly map portal (with a nice brand name <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and matching apps, with maps, routing, geocoding, aerial imagery, <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">streetview imagery and all) is not a *bad* idea, and if someone made <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">such a portal they should certainly be encouraged to use OSM for it. <br></blockquote><br>When I worked for Cloudmade I found a nice book on map<br>projections. They bought it for me because they were nice that<br>way. Without going into any of the projections, lesson #1 from that<br>book is: every map has its compromises. All of them. So, purely from a<br>technical standpoint, we shouldn't be telling people that Mapnik is<br>the be-all and end-all of map tile sets.<br><br>IMHO, Mapnik is the tile set for OSM editors. As such, it should be<br>more concerned about completeness than anything else. And as such, map<br>editors will be happy to click on a <a href="http://mapnik.osm.org">http://mapnik.osm.org</a> link on the<br>front page of OSM. It's probably MUCH better for our community of<br>users if we give them a list of links to maps, than if we show them<br>just one map. Make it a bunch of screen shots of the same place with<br>links.<br><br>-- <br>--my blog is at <a href="http://blog.russnelson.com">http://blog.russnelson.com</a><br>Crynwr supports open source software<br>521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815<br>Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>