[OSM-talk] Logo (was: The OSM Applet - let's ditch it for JOSM (was:Mapping Reading, some impressions))

[Andrew Loughhead]

Andy Robinson wrote:
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> Can I ask who out there with the project are traditional website developers?
> I think we could do with a competition to design a new project homepage. The
> basic look and format that is. No reason why someone with graphical
> experience and a static shot of the suggested look should couldn't
> contribute either, someone else can turn that into html/xml/css or whatever
> is needed. Doing this might throw up what we really want our first time
> users to see instead of a Landsat image of the globe.

On a slightly related note, I find the OSM logo, with the magnifying 
glass over map data, surprisingly reminiscent of the ArcView 3.x logo. 
This can be seen within an old Arcview 3 product brochure [1]. 
Variations on the magnifying glass were used throughout the Arcview 3 
series and associated extensions, and of course on T-shirts.

Its not exactly a problem, since Arcview 3 is now superseded, remembered 
only by aging GIS geeks, and current ESRI branding seems to emphasize 
their world logo. But, if there is to be a website design competition, 
maybe the logo is up for grabs too.  I'd suggest borrowing the Wikipedia 
jigsaw globe, but somehow imbuing it with streetmap-ness ;-).

1. http://www.esri.com/library/brochures/pdfs/avgisbro.pdf