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

[Lester Caine]

Rob Nickerson wrote:
> Hi Lester,
>
> If you are after a full screen map for your website, it is very easy to create
> one with a simple html page that links to Leaflet (the tool for providing pan
> and zoom, etc) and the tiles server at OSM. I've attached something I was able
> to get up and running quite quickly. My web developer skills are near zero :-)

You are missing the point Rob ...

People are used to clicking on 'View larger map' and getting to Google Maps. The 
OLD website while not the prettiest was more in the style of what people are 
used to getting. I want to promote OSM and so I need something that is on the 
OSM side that is uasable. I've just switched all of the promotional links from 
openstreetmap.org to wiki.openstreetmap.org as THAT is a lot more informative 
than where people are ending currently!

The new front end has a place, but THAT is probably at map.openstreetmap.org 
rather than the main front page. Even if I was seaching for OSM cold I think I'd 
feel 'What the f**k' when confronted simply with a map and a few strange links. 
Being forced to log in just to get to something usable information wise is just 
not right. None of the first clicks give any sensible support for a new user 
even if they ARE looking for contributing.

If OSM is not going to provide a usable set of pages, then I will roll my own. I 
do already have that running, but it's OSM's site that needs to be linked to 
directly to promote it!

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