[OSM-dev] Please readd "OSM" as export format

[John Firebaugh]

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Jason Remillard
<remillard.jason at gmail.com>wrote:

> For what its worth, it does kind of make sense to have a download osm
> "export" option in the new share window to consolidate things. Png,
> SVG, OSM.
>

Separating "Share" and "Export" was an intentional design change; I don't
think consolidating them works very well, for a couple reasons. One,
different audiences -- sharing via a link, embed, or image are simple,
consumer-mapping oriented tasks of the sort where OSM has some overlap with
other map providers, while export is for the more technically inclined (and
what differentiates OSM). Two, sharing is scale agnostic, while the export
provided by osm.org works only for small areas. By separating them, I
gained space for the export pane to provide information about bulk
downloads:
https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/98601/940876/1cfb5cfa-0137-11e3-823d-914c1a079692.png
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