[OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

[Peter Miller]

On 3 Mar 2009, at 03:51, SteveC wrote:

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> There are a bunch of open questions like what design elements should
> stay, what should go, what colour schemes would be neat. Feel free to
> contribute and if it's useful we can build a design brief based on
> comments and ideas... then if it's useful to the community we can have
> them do some more design work to build some cool front page mockups.

Firstly, can I suggest we address this after we have put the license  
to bed. I was away from the office yesterday at returned to 144 posts  
from talk, many relating to the license which as you know I am  
interested in. I really don't have time to do both in parallel.

With regard to the front page, thanks for the ideas.  I would suggest  
that we bring the 'wiki project' pages for the area of the map much  
more to the forefront. If I am looking at a map in the Ipswich area in  
the UK then I should know that there is a wiki-Ipswich page (and also  
a wiki-Suffolk page).

I say this because I want budding mappers in my area to know what  
needs to be done and to read about where we are up to before editing.  
I have written the Ipswich page for that purpose. It says what is  
complete, what is 'work in progress' and what is virgin new territory  
(cafes and points of interest etc).  It tells people which email lists  
might be relevant. That page has viewed only 72 times in about 4 months.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ipswich

The Suffolk page again details what has been done and what needs to be  
done. It has been viewed only 130 times in the same period.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Suffolk(UK)

It might also be useful to define bounding boxes for geographically  
related talk pages, so we can also promote the lists for the area in  
question as well.

Would it also be sensible to filter the 'User Diaries' to the ones  
relevant to the area in question and could all these resources be  
pulled together into one tag that related to the view box, ie wiki  
pages, email lists and diary entries.


Regards,



Peter




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