[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Use settings for hardcoded URLs in Export (Issue #7215)

[Andy Allan]

gravitystorm left a comment (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#7215)

I don't think this is worthwhile, unfortunately, even though I can see why you might want it.

There's no point in changing the url to the geofabrik server, without also changing the title and the description. It's a specific company with a specific url, it's not a generalised service.

It's also worth noting that the overpass link isn't generic - the UI adds location information to that url, in an overpass-specific format, and that doesn't happen for the other urls.

I guess in theory a third-party installation of this codebase could have a list of their own 4 alternative download locations, and just change the titles, descriptions and urls for each of them to something else (and ignore the names in the keys). Something like

```yaml
    planet:
      title: "Planet OpenExampleSite"
      description: "Regularly-updated copies of the complete OpenExampleSite database"
    overpass:
      title: "OverSomething API"
      description: "Download this bounding box from a mirror of the OpenExampleSite database"
    geofabrik:
      title: "Some other location"
      description: "Some other description"
    ...
```

But there's no guarantee that the OpenExampleSite needs exactly four locations, and that one of those locations is an overpass url, and what if we add a fifth link, and so on. So really we're talking about a much bigger level of customisation, and we don't support that.

However, I'd suggest a compromise version, where we move the URLs out of the view and into the translation system. We do that already with a lot of other unlikely-to-really-need-translation urls, so there is precedent there.


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