<div dir="ltr">Hi Martin,<div><br></div><div>Can you provide some compelling examples of images that you'd like to see us using instead?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="im"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/12/2 Pieren <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pieren3@gmail.com" target="_blank">pieren3@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<div style="overflow:hidden">For sure, contour lines are not part of OSM but it makes nice images.<br>
It's all about marketing ;-)</div></blockquote></div><br><br></div>While I agree that the image is visually appealing, I still dispute that it is suitable for representing OSM on our main "about" page. We do have lots of lots of OSM-related images and different maps based on OSM to choose 4 images from (e.g. the images of the week), we really shouldn't use proprietary imagery from Mapquest or unrelated srtm data and NASA imagery for this scope.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">cheers,<br>Martin<br></div></div>
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