[OSM-dev] The new link on the OSM map

[Paul Norman]

> From: NopMap [mailto:ekkehart at gmx.de]
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 7:34 AM
> To: dev at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] The new link on the OSM map
> 
> tmcw wrote
> > Is it really a terrible weight to update JOSM to recognize the new
> format?
> 
> It is not just about JOSM, the change breaks *every application, web
> service or browser plugin* that creates a reference to the osm main page
> or that could parse an OSM url.
> 
> That's a little bit more :-).

Links inbound to the OSM web page still work fine. As far as I can tell 
this change impacts two work flows

- 3rd party scripts that manipulate web-page internals

- Copying the osm.org URL to another program

> What's more as this was done unannounced (no, an internal issue tracker
> is not an announcement), all these applications are failing now as a
> surprise for their users. 

This was in my message to talk@ about interesting website stuff in the 
works last month. See
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-July/067713.html

The summary I gave was "using #zoom/lon/latinstead of ?lon=A&lat=B&zoom=C"

I know that talk@ only reaches a subset of mappers, so if you have
suggestions 
for additional places I could send my announcements I'd welcome them.