[OSM-talk] Things People Say

[Thomas Davie]

You're right – it needs to be a bit clearer that there's more than one map available, perhaps the right way to do this though is to make the layers box a bit more obvious, and give the various layers rather more user friendly names, so that people will experiment with a few of them.

Tom Davie
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On 30 Dec 2011, at 14:51, Russ Nelson wrote:

> Frederik Ramm writes:
>> For me, the idea of a user friendly map portal (with a nice brand name 
>> and matching apps, with maps, routing, geocoding, aerial imagery, 
>> streetview imagery and all) is not a *bad* idea, and if someone made 
>> such a portal they should certainly be encouraged to use OSM for it. 
> 
> When I worked for Cloudmade I found a nice book on map
> projections. They bought it for me because they were nice that
> way. Without going into any of the projections, lesson #1 from that
> book is: every map has its compromises. All of them. So, purely from a
> technical standpoint, we shouldn't be telling people that Mapnik is
> the be-all and end-all of map tile sets.
> 
> IMHO, Mapnik is the tile set for OSM editors. As such, it should be
> more concerned about completeness than anything else. And as such, map
> editors will be happy to click on a http://mapnik.osm.org link on the
> front page of OSM. It's probably MUCH better for our community of
> users if we give them a list of links to maps, than if we show them
> just one map. Make it a bunch of screen shots of the same place with
> links.
> 
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