<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi All,<br><br>As noted the map controls have recently changed on the main <a href="http://osm.org">osm.org</a> page. On the talk@ mailing list there was a few comments stating that it would have been nice to have been asked/consulted first. <br>
<br>The changes were in fact announced and stem from Saman's SOTM US talk (slides [1], video [2]). This "map controls" update was one small part of Saman's suggested changes to OSM.org and was visible as a "Pull Request" [3] and discussed on rails-dev@ [4].<br>
<br></div><div>I advise that you look at Saman's SOTM US slides and video for an sneak peak of possible future changes (note that I do not know which features are still being developed). There will also be an update to the proposed changes during SOTM 2013 [5] (September, Birmingham UK) of which videos will be made available if you are unable to attend.<br>
<br></div><div>Personally, I'm loving the work Saman (and team) is doing - there are some really nice ideas shown in his slides.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br>Rob<br></div><div><br>====================================================<br>
</div><div>PLEASE, do NOT flood our developers with negative comments. They put a lot of hard work into OSM.org (and associated services) and the simple fact is that you will not always please everyone. If you have genuine comments of feedback I suggest that you take time to collate and consider your ideas before posting.<br>
</div><div><br>Finally, a few other things to note:<br><br></div>* With over 1 million registered users it is impossible to please everyone. Please put things into perspective before replying with negative comments. Also consideration of the amount of development time is always appreciated.<br>
<br></div>* OSM has numerous communication channels (too many maybe). Where would you stop if it was decided to post announcements to the community. Furthermore as the OSM Foundation did not ask for permission to send email to registered users they cannot therefore push notifications to all users (rather users will need to read the communication channels that interest them).<br>
<br></div><br></div><div><div><div><div>[1] <a href="http://samanpwbb.github.io/osm-redesign/new-osm-slides.html#0" target="_blank">http://samanpwbb.github.io/osm-redesign/new-osm-slides.html#0</a><br>[2] <a href="http://vimeopro.com/openstreetmapus/state-of-the-map-us-2013/video/68093877" target="_blank">http://vimeopro.com/openstreetmapus/state-of-the-map-us-2013/video/68093877</a><br>
[3] <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/328">https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/328</a><br>[4] <a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/rails-dev/2013-July/002639.html">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/rails-dev/2013-July/002639.html</a><br>
[5] <a href="http://2013.stateofthemap.org/">http://2013.stateofthemap.org/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div>