[OSM-talk] Revised wiki front page

Etienne 80n80n at gmail.com
Sun Sep 3 12:01:26 BST 2006


On 9/3/06, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) <openstreetmap at ostertag.name>
wrote:
>
> On Sunday 03 September 2006 11:11, you wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 08:55 +0200, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
> >
> > wrote:
> > > On Saturday 02 September 2006 22:50, Steve Chilton wrote:
> > > > Well done (OJW, LA2 and Dutch?) on revised wiki front page.
> > >
> > > Yes I have to agree. It's a major  improvement.
> >
> > To be perfectly honest, I think I'd rather see that (or something like
> > it) as the main web front page, with a link to the slippy map. For a
> > first-time visitor, a nice Osmarender-created map looks far more
> > impressive than a landsat image of the planet. In my opinion, of course.
> > I haven't actually solicited opinions from people who don't know OSM ;-)
>
> Yes, This is another point I would definitely agree to. I don't know how
> these
> Things change with Ruby-Rails. But if it doesn't change with rails we
> could
> already start with it.
> What about renameing the Host which does the diaplying and editing to
> editing.openstreetmap.org and then putting a static startpage to
> www.openstreetmap.org which gives a nice good introduction to OSM like the
> first wiki page currently does.


+1 - excellent idea.

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