[OSM-talk] The new OpenStreetMap.org design

[Christoph Hormann]

On Wednesday 04 December 2013, John Firebaugh wrote:
>
> Concretely, here are the improvements we implemented:
>
> [...]

Are there any plans to evaluate if these design goals are actually met?  
I know this is difficult to assess but you could do quite a bit by 
analyzing server logs before and after the change.  Also having a poll 
among registered OSM users might be possible.

I ask this because there are a lot of claims in your list of 
improvements that are plausible but not self evident and a critical 
evaluation of those would be prudent.  In particular from my 
perspective (and others have made statements in a similar direction) 
the claim of an overall better usability is somewhat doubtful at this 
point.  The most serious usability issues are however not inherent to 
the design I think so these could be solved by gradual improvements - 
some of them already have been addressed.

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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/