[OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

[Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio]

Hi,
 
I think the word 'usable' is being used in a strange way. When someone says 'adding the coordinates makes the map less usable' they mean 'Many people don't know what that funny number means and when people see something they don't understand, they feel unconfortable, so they are unlikely to visit this website again'.
 
I myself dont have a clear opinion on whether the coordinates should be there or not. Perhaps an intermediate decision: the coordinates would appear if the mouse keeps still for 2 seconds.
 
Apart from this, I'd like to congratulate the person who has taken the time to transform Spherical Mercator coordinates to longitude and latitude (bottom right corner in http://www.informationfreeway.org). I think that person should be asked to redesign the scale bar in http://www.openstreetmap.org)
 
And a question: nobody showed the difference between the Cape Town map on OSM and on Google Maps in the FOSS4G conference?
 
cheers
Lucas

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De: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org en nombre de elvin ibbotson
Enviado el: mar 07/10/2008 9:28
Para: Steve Coast
CC: Talk Openstreetmap
Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org



	From: SteveC <steve at asklater.com>
	Date: 2 October 2008 22:51:14 BDT
	To: ulf.mehlig at gmx.net
	Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
	Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org <http://www.openstreetmap.org/> 



	On 1 Oct 2008, at 11:01, Ulf Mehlig wrote:



		Hello Frederik, thanks for your answer. The coordinate display at
		www.informationfreeway.org is what I was looking for. Wouldn't it be
		possible to integrate this function into the main OpenStreetMap site? I
		think this would definitely improve the attractiveness of the map
		display (even more, if degree-minute-second based coordinates would
		appear, too -- for many people, the decimal coordinates are not what
		they're used to).



	Just demonstrably not true. Most people don't know what co-ordinates are or care that they don't know. It would just clutter the map and make us look less usable.

	Best




Steve, 

It looks like fakeSteveC or someone is pretending to be you and posting elitist, patronising, condescending rubbish in an apparent attempt to make you look foolish. I look forward to it being demonstrated that 'most people don't know what coordinates are'.

elvin ibbotson




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