[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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