[OSM-talk] Organisation of Wiki pages

[Lars Aronsson]

Etienne wrote:

> At the moment, the user experience via the wiki is significantly 
> better than via the main slippy map.

An interesting study!  But a dimension you didn't study is 
researching the many, many thousand different names that can be 
searched and found via the slippy map and that I hope will never 
have their own pages on the OSM wiki (our wiki would easily become 
ten times bigger than Wikipedia).  We already know that the slippy 
map is slow (and unreliable: it doesn't always draw the roads that 
it should), but this is because it is a piece of crappy software 
written by a few programmers with all the wrong focus (pretty 
soon, Steve will call me a troll again).  This can be fixed, but 
not by switching to uploading static map images to a wiki.  We 
have already seen prototypes of better implementations, based on 
Shapefiles and Mapserver.


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