[OSM-talk] Non-slippy map link on front page?

[Andy Allan]

On 9/3/07, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Tom Hughes wrote:
>
> > As far as putting a link on goes, the problem is one of screen real
> > estate as we've already got people complaining that they can't see
> > everything without scrolling.
> >
> > There's also an issue about whether we want a dependency on something
> > that isn't part of the main official web site like that.
>
> Colin Marquardt, on (other) Tom's blog, has posted that this would be
> best rectified at the OpenLayers level. I think that's an excellent
> suggestion.

I've had the same OP on my weblog regarding the cycle maps. You can
see the discussion unfolding at
http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2007/07/31/openstreetmap-cycle-map/#comment-22379

There's four issues that I can see being combined into the
anti-my-cycle-map complaint:

* Dislike of javascript (security and power consumption being mentioned)
* Printing
* Disability implications of slippy interface
* Linking to pages

The latter two I think can be handled by navigation buttons and
permalinks respectively, but I'm running with them enabled already and
the complaint is still being generated. I'm really not sure if there's
any easy way out of the first, without needing e.g. php scripts to
handle things instead. With Openlayers you can just have a dumb host
and everything works - but if someone were to make a combined
openlayers+php fallback thing I'd consider it.

The interesting one is the case of printing, but I guess that's an
OpenLayers issue too?

Cheers,
Andy