[OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Tue Mar 3 11:27:16 GMT 2009


Andy Allan wrote:
> 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)

I hate to point this out, but Tiles at Home is also just the name of part 
of the technology used.

Osmarender is the name of the rendering software, Tiles at Home is the name 
of the distributed rendering system.

Tom

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