[OSM-talk] Simple improvement(s) to openstreetmap.org

Steve Doerr doerr.stephen at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 16:22:18 GMT 2013


Twitter- and Facebook-user here, and I look forward to seeing links to 
those sites on the OSM page. Perhaps a 'Share this map' button alongside 
the Permalink/Sharelink links (it's basically an extension of the same 
idea, but saves the effort of doing copy and paste).

Steve

On 09/01/2013 15:15, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org 
> <mailto:frederik at remote.org>> wrote:
>
>
>     I think it is ok for us to post stuff to Twitter, and I think we
>     should make room for such news on our web page (many web sites
>     have a widget that shows the most recent twitter mentions).
>
>     I would dislike a "follow us on Twitter" button because it will
>     only show the Twitter signup page if someone doesn't have an
>     account, and therefore make it look like you had to subscribe to
>     Twitter in order to read our news - which is thankfully not true.
>
>
> I think this would be missing our audience.  If you're illiterate (a 
> group Twitter caters specifically to), what are the odds you're going 
> to be able to make use of a map, much less contribute constructively 
> to OSM?

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