[openstreetmap-website] Gps move (#42)

[Shaun McDonald]

On 12 Apr 2012, at 17:01, Martijn van Exel wrote:

> I don't really feel a need for the GPS traces to be available from the homepage at all - the link between those and the map is not clear to many. I think if they were only available through the user pages, that would be just fine. What do people expect to see when they click 'GPS traces'? I'd say most would expect to get a map overlay of GPS traces. Traces showing what? My guess is that most site visitors won't be able to make that link, or draw the wrong conclusion (that OSM consists somehow of GPS traces). 

The main downside of them only being available through the user pages is that you can't get access to the full list of GPS traces from all users in one place.

> 
> I'd like to raise a more general point about these smaller UX changes. We recently changed the layer switcher, the tab bar, the location of the data overlay, and the user diaries. I understand the need for atomic changes from a development and deployment perspective, but I feel we need to consolidate rolling the UX changes out in bigger chunks so as not to confuse people too much. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on that

I personally prefer the smaller incremental changes. Major sites such as Facebook and Amazon work on this small tweaking principle rather than suddenly making huge changes. Large groups of changes are more difficult to manage from a release and development perspective.

Shaun

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> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> On 11/04/12 17:17, Tom MacWright wrote:
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> As in the one commit here, just moves GPS Traces from the top bar to the left sidebar.
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> I've merged this to http://tomh.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/ for people's consideration.
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> It all looks good to me - my only question is whether it might be better at the bottom of the menu, after Help and Community, rather than before.
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