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

[Lester Caine]

Jonathan wrote:
> Personally speaking I don't feel it would be a terrible idea to ditch the
> OpenStreetMap.org map and just have this page as the homepage:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_OpenStreetMap
>
> I don't believe OSM is about rendering maps, isn't it about creating a
> cartographic database?

There is basically no reason that we can't simply have
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org giving direct access to the documentation
and
http://map.openstreetmap.org giving clean access to the same map layers that the 
editor provides as a background.

Then leave http://openstreetmap.org to proide what ever people want from that 
view ...

Yes other versions of the map exist and can be used, but this is the definative 
map, and changes made here are reflected promptly while some other maps can be 
weeks behind ... I can post changes and see them rendered fairly promptly. But 
as yet there is no tidy method of reflecting those changes into my own rendering 
... which is another problem here.

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