[OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 11:07:56 GMT 2009


On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Dave Stubbs <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk> wrote:
>  I keep wanting to scream every time I see it say
> "Mapnik".. as if three of the layers there aren't actually rendered
> using Mapnik anyway :-)
> I can't imagine what a newbie will think a Mapnik is.

Quite. Can someone please come up with names for the two "main" styles
that aren't just the technology that creates them?
s/osmarender/Tiles at Home/ would be a start (osmarender is 'just' the
technology currently used in generating the t at h map), and as you say,
the other three are all generated using mapnik (maybe postgis/mapnik
for the gnu/linux tards amongst us?) so having "mapnik" is a bit
weird, and I'm sure causes half the problems on the mapnik MLs where
people are actually talking about the main OSM rendering and not the
mapnik library itself.

Suggestions on a postcard?

Cheers,
Andy




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