[OSM-talk] Move the Map

[Eric Wolf]

It's just the Brits trying to re-establish their imperial dominance over the
world.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Shaun McDonald
<shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk>wrote:

>
> On 17 Jun 2009, at 18:17, Joe Richards wrote:
>
> One of the main annoyances that people tell me that they have with OSM
> is that whenever they visit the site, the map shows them just the UK.
>
> I checked it (from other random computers, not my laptop) when I was in
> Thailand and Australia and it always showed the UK.  Is the UK the default
> if IP resolution fails?
>
>
> It will default to the following if nothing else works (from url, cookie,
> user home location, session cookie, and GeoIP)
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.1&lon=-0.1&zoom=5
>
> The code of the algorithm is at
>
> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/rails_port/app/views/site/index.html.erb#L55
>
> Shaun
>
>
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