[OSM-talk] search field not vivisble when not logged in

[Erik Johansson]

2010/7/5 Roman Neumüller <r.neumuller at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:45:17 +0300, Erik Johansson <emj at kth.se> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Roman Neumüller <r.neumuller at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> The main page (map) doesn't show the search field when not being logged
>>> in -
>>> this is not very user friendly and doesn't conform to a "wiki" like site
>>> where the search field is usually good visible and placed high on a page
>>> (I had to scroll down half a VW lenght on my 1024*768 screen to see the
>>> field ;-)
>>> We had this subject before...
>>
>> It's feature, to make you see the State of the Map ad..
>>
> The State of the Map maybe interesting for a handful of profis - not for
> the newbie...


FWIW I agree with you, and I we should rip off google maps layout.

What I really wanted to say before was that I know the feeling, I had
it last time it was SOTM, but then I thought it's only ~3 weeks per
year and people really should go. What you are really want is a
redesign of the front page, which hasn't really changed at all since
2005.

Before 2005 the search field had pretty good visibilty, but that was
because of "tile" generation performance problems..
http://web.archive.org/web/20051123220150/http://www.openstreetmap.org/