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

Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmunro at arjam.net
Mon Sep 3 19:01:11 BST 2007


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Richard Fairhurst 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.

But OpenLayers is a bunch of Javascript that runs on static web sites.
It can't provide a non-javascript version - there would be no where for
the code to run. The only equavalent would be to provide 1 html page
centered on each tile at every zoom or something. It has to be written
in Rails, but should be fairly simple to do, and put inside a <noscript>
tag. It could also act as search engine bait by including textual links
to places using the name search's "where am I" feature.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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