[OSM-talk] Revised wiki front page

[Andy Robinson]

Etienne wrote:
>Sent: 03 September 2006 12:01 PM
>To: Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Revised wiki front page
>
>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 <http://www.openstreetmap.org>  which gives a
>nice good introduction to OSM like the
>	first wiki page currently does.
>
>
>+1 - excellent idea.

very much my thoughts too.
+1 from here.

Cheers

Andy


Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 



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