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

[Filip Chirita Rares Cristian]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Steve Doerr <doerr.stephen at gmail.com>wrote:

>  On the contrary, I use openstreetmap.org all the time. Whenever I
> encounter a place I'm unfamiliar with, I look it up on openstreetmap.org.
> I almost never look at renderings of OSM data through another web-site. In
> Facebook postings and emails, where I want to link to a map it's invariably
> to openstreetmap.org that I link. I personally don't see openstreetmap.orgas a contributor-oriented web site. I see it as a showcase to the world -
> though of course it must always provide me with a pathway to edit the
> database.
>
> Steve
>
>
+1, same here. It's as much about adding data to the map as it is making
other people aware of the existance of OSM. Whenever I see a map with
information in it from my home country, it's always from Google. By showing
people that you can pull data from OSM and showing them that there are
other map services out there than the big 2 (Goog and Bing), you might
bring other people into the community.

I understand why the front page is redisned as it is, and I think the info
blurb isn't too big, at least for my screen, just wanted to express here
why people should know that OSM is also a map, not just a Database.

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