[Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

[Lester Caine]

Oliver Jowett wrote:
>     The point is that "just using the map" is not our target audience.
>
>     As has been said many times, we are not trying to be an end user mapping
>     site that offers a Google Maps alternative for the masses.
>
>     Our target audience is people that want to signup and contribute.
>
> I contribute when I see problems with the map in areas I am familiar with.
>
> To see the problems, I have to be using the map in the first place.
>
> To use the map I'd prefer not to have that signup box floating around all the
> time (I am only logged in when I am about to edit).

I'd second that ( although this should probably be on the main talk list )

I CONTRIBUTE to mapping to provide correct information to my client base and I 
encourage them to use OSM instead of Google because we do provide the correct 
details, and in many cases the only detail in an area. We need a clean user 
interface which has easy access to edit functions, although I'm tending towards 
off-line editing as certainly I would NOT recommend iD even to new users, so 
josm currently seems the only option anyway going forward!

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