[OSM-talk] Something fun (was Main page)

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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David Earl wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
>> [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org]On Behalf Of OJW
>> Sent: 27 May 2007 13:44
>> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Something fun (was Main page)
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>> On Saturday 26 May 2007 20:30, Nic Roets wrote:
>>> If one of the developers are looking for something "fun" to do, here's
>>> my proposal :
>>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:Name_finder#Search_en
>> gine_bait
>>
>> Using code similar to this site?
>>
>> http://almien.co.uk/City/
>>
> 
> I think the point that was being made was to create a _street_ level
> gazeteer so that name-finder results appear in Google, not just be explcitly
> visiting one of our own search engines.
> 
> That would be pretty easy to do from my name-finder database.

Ideally a combination of the two should be added to the main site.
Perhaps a bunch of links to continents could be added at the bottom of
the page.

Each link would have a slippy map covering the continent and a list of
countries.

Each country would have a list of cities, towns or whatever inside the
country. Both of these lists could be generated with the is_in tag.

A list of some streets needs to be added in each city, and each street
needs links to al the streets and towns it is near. Each street should
have a page of it's own. Search engines could then crawl all the links,
and if someone searches google or whatever for a street and town, we may
come up as a hit.

Another thought I had for the front page is a link that says "Link to
this map" and provides three things:
1. The URL of the map as in the view tab.

2. A simple example html snippet:
 <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/...">View a map</a>

3. An "embed this map" html snippet, perhaps something like:
 <div id="openstreetmap" style="width:500;height:500"></div>
 <script src="http://www.openstreetmap.org/embedmap.js"></script>
 <script>
   showmap(51.76063469290147,-1.2511609445132832,12);
 </script>

and the embedmap script looks after all the openlayers stuff.

What do people think?

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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