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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 07.01.2013 08:22, schrieb Jo:<br>
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cite="mid:CAJ6DwMAkennZP0O86WXN_RYL2KSG83=i_P0YMaKVN1OyagvBLw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Maybe the home page should not have a map on it (it's
only a sample of what is in the database anyway, which will always
be lacking some feature). Instead it could have links to <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://openlinkmap.org/"
target="_blank">openlinkmap.org</a> (which is what you seem to
want), <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://hikebikemap.de/"
target="_blank">hikebikemap.de</a>, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://demo.3liz.com/osmtransport/" target="_blank">http://demo.3liz.com/osmtransport/</a>
and many more fine examples of other ways to represent the
available data.</blockquote>
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The problem is, that the ordinary user is confused with that. He/she
does not know what to choose, meaning he will leave right away and
go for Google or Bing Maps. Of course, it is possible to make OSM
purely for OSM mappers and more tech affectionate people, but I
wonder if this is the right attitude. Just because someone is not
that interested into something like that, he still wants to be able
to use the map. If you think of it, everybody has some weak points
in his knowledge: food, clothing, technology, languages; and for
everything, there are services to make it easy for someone.<br>
Therefore, in my opinion, it is necessary to develop the main OSM
map: This is where the people look, and not somewhere else. If they
have too much choice, they will not use it at all.<br>
Of course, there can and should be other projects. But I think the
main OSM map should be developed and incorporate much more features,
especially being more interactive: Being able to click on items
(e.g. click on a shop, and its further details with name, telephone
number etc. will pop up), selecting bus lanes which will then be
highlighted on the map, looking for all supermarkets in a city etc.
The features which most of the users want should be there; only more
specialized stuff needs an own map. <br>
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Wikipedia has become so widely used because it is extremely simple:
just go on wikipedia.org, enter your search term and done. This is
also necessary for OSM, I think: If you only heard the name
openstreetmap, you look for openstreetmap in google, and then you
want all the information on one page.<br>
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Of course, this may need full-time development, but I think many
people would be willing to donate money for that purpose. I
certainly would.<br>
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