[OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

[Lester Caine]

Barry Hunter wrote:
>> >The new setup seems to be saying 'if you are not here to map go away!' If
>> >this is really the case then perhaps we need a NEW site for those of us who
>> >contribute data with a view to actually using it live?
> http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
>
> ? That is a site for "end users" of OSM created maps.
>
> In many ways OSM is a data provider, it doesnt have the resources to
> create website for end users (as such).

Now I've now found the 'html' option on the OSM map, and along with the link and 
short link these target the same map. Simply replacing the URL with the mapquest 
one does not provide a working link, and in any case the rendering of roads in 
this area is simply wrong ... and that is the whole reason for using the links 
in contact pages.

If a service is not going to be provided then it should not be prominent on the 
front page? In any case, the embeded map is provided via OSM and so maintaining 
a compatible rendering in the follow on link is important, switching to one with 
a different style on another site seems wrong? If we were providing these pages 
ourselves then we would still be using the OSM tile server? I got around 50% of 
the way through rendering my own set - after 7 days - but the tiles were already 
well out of date :(

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