[openstreetmap-website] Document design goals (#1038)

[Mateusz Konieczny]

It would be useful to documents design goals of this project. "keep it as simple as possible, this is not supposed to be replacement for Google Maps with its integrated services" is sometimes repeated - but currently I see no way to check whatever it is true and up to date (I remember/misremember it as an old explanation for why there is no route finding on OSM website).

I thought about something short, similar to https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/CARTOGRAPHY.md

In my case I considered "adding opening hours as an additional selectable overlay on OSM website" (basically, adding http://ypid.de/~osm/ as overlay working similar to "Map Data" overlay) - but I am not sure how I should check whatever something like that would be even considered as a valid addition.

At this moment the best solutions is to open issue requesting such feature (like #706) waiting about week and check whatever one of main developers commented that it is a bad idea. In case of lack of negative comments assume that maybe it is a good idea and start coding with hope that finished work will not be rejected as mismatching overall goals. This would be slower, more prone to mistakes and would result in some completely pointless issues.

In case that something like that exists - adding link to it in https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md would be a good idea.

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