[OSM-talk] Portal for end users

Christian Pietzsch christian.pietzsch at gmail.com
Fri Sep 18 16:40:46 UTC 2015


>
> I understand that if we want to build a data-use portal, it should be
> managed separately from the current OSM.org infrastructure. But
> couldn't we make a subdomain like use.openstreetmap.org [9] to
> showcase projects? And maybe try and let that evolve into an ecosystem
> of applications, to make it as easy as possible to integrate features
> of one project to the next?


openstreetmap.de has something thats similar to what you mentioned. On the
front page under "Schaufenster" there are mentioned a few project from
different categories.
We have a nice collection of OSM services in the Wiki.It would just have to
be made a little more pretty (pictures and co) and presented more
prominently.

Cheers
Christian

2015-09-18 15:24 GMT+02:00 Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl>:

> W dniu 18.09.2015 9:10, joost schouppe napisał(a):
>
>> I don't think a portal in the style of the Mapquest example is the
>> best answer. I don't really think there is going to be any specific
>> OSM-based Google Maps killer ever going to be built. Instead the
>> strength of OSM is rather being able to cater to niches. No single
>> Google Maps inspired project could ever reflect the diversity of what
>> you can do with OSM.
>>
>
> I support this point of view. Google strength is integration of many
> services (including commercial ones) and a lot of automatic ways to gather
> and process data; ours is great amount of details and a lot of human-based
> ways to gather and process data. They are not contradictory - both ways can
> borrow something from the other, but I think starting with what we already
> have in a good shape is better than trying to start with imitating the
> other side of spectrum.
>
> Even though we have a diversity of news channels, I notice how many
>> involved OSM afficionados don't know about some of these projects. And
>> if they don't know, how is our average data user ever going to know.
>> As OSM.org gets more features and users,  a larger proportion of those
>> users will not know about projects like this.
>>
>
> Lack of integration - sometimes just underusing existing communication
> infrastructure - is the most visible problem for me in OSM. The ecosystem
> is broad, diverse and healthy, which is great, but very disconnected at the
> same time (even between the most important sub-projects), which makes
> trying to do anything crossing the boundaries very hard, inefficient and
> time-consuming.
>
> I understand that if we want to build a data-use portal, it should be
>> managed separately from the current OSM.org infrastructure. But
>> couldn't we make a subdomain like use.openstreetmap.org [9] to
>> showcase projects? And maybe try and let that evolve into an ecosystem
>> of applications, to make it as easy as possible to integrate features
>> of one project to the next?
>>
>
> Nice idea!
>
>
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