[openstreetmap-website] Gps move (#42)

[Tom Hughes]

On 12/04/12 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).

As Shaun said, without it there is no way to access the global list of 
traces. How useful that list is I don't know.

> 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

Well from my point of view small changes make reviewing things easier 
especially while people are still getting up to speed.

Larger projects, especially where multiple people are involved, really 
need somebody to take charge of curating the project and collecting 
everybody's edits together in a single clean set of patches which can 
then be considered for merging and it's not clear to what extent we have 
people ready and able to take on that kind of role at the moment though 
it is definitely something I want to develop.

Tom

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