[OSM-talk] growing the volunteer base

[Nick Black]

The proposed system sounds good and the front page designs are starting to
look really sleek.  But... I was talking about this to some people at FOSS4G
last week.  I think its really important that there is a map on the first
page that someone comes to - preferably an interactive one.  I've been
experimenting with some IP geocoding, without much success which may be
becuase I am in the Isle of Man at the moment.  Has anyone tried this:

http://www.hostip.info/use.html

Skyhook produced a firefox plugin a few months back that geocodes from IP
address:

http://loki.com/download/

As I remember, it works quite well.  So, we could prerender Osmarender
images and display an image map that is relevant to the user's location - at
the country level, on the front page.  This would be a good comprimise
beteween showing the existing map and having no map at all.

Nick


On 9/20/06, Paul Dixon <paul at elphin.com> wrote:
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> >     Could something similar work for us? Would someone like to hack
> >     something like it on top of trac?
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> They are planning on making their volunteer page easier to reuse:
> https://secure.mysociety.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=648
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