[OSM-talk] Search field on www.openstreetmap.org
Hi there, on the SotM09 there was agreement that the search field should be visible at the upper left of the screen in all screen resolutions on http://www.openstreetmap.org . This is not realized yet. Who can do it, please? Thanks Lulu-Ann -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Search field on www.openstreetmap.org
On 30/07/09 15:01, lulu-...@gmx.de wrote: on the SotM09 there was agreement that the search field should be visible at the upper left of the screen in all screen resolutions on http://www.openstreetmap.org . Funny, I obviously missed that. This is not realized yet. Who can do it, please? Lots of people can, but there are very good reasons why it is where it is at the moment which is why it hasn't been moved. The whole home page needs a redesign, and I don't really want to start fiddling with little things like this when we should be doing the job properly. There are also issues with search at the moment which mean we don't actually want to make it too prominent. Since the SOTM advert has been removed it should now be on the home page for most people anyway - the main problems come when there is extra stuff in the sidebar like the SOTM ad that pushes it below the bottom of people's windows. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Search field on www.openstreetmap.org
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Tom Hughest...@compton.nu wrote: There are also issues with search at the moment which mean we don't actually want to make it too prominent. It's worth pointing out that there are developers who are working on improving the search (primarily David Earl), so it's a known issue that's being worked on rather than something that's being ignored. When we have the improvements we need to make it work better, then I'm sure it'll be appropriate to make it more prominent. Cheers, Andy ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Search field on www.openstreetmap.org
Tom Hughes schrieb: On 30/07/09 15:01, lulu-...@gmx.de wrote: on the SotM09 there was agreement that the search field should be visible at the upper left of the screen in all screen resolutions on http://www.openstreetmap.org . Funny, I obviously missed that. +1 This is not realized yet. Who can do it, please? Lots of people can, but there are very good reasons why it is where it is at the moment which is why it hasn't been moved. The whole home page needs a redesign, and I don't really want to start fiddling with little things like this when we should be doing the job properly. There are also issues with search at the moment which mean we don't actually want to make it too prominent. Since the SOTM advert has been removed it should now be on the home page for most people anyway - the main problems come when there is extra stuff in the sidebar like the SOTM ad that pushes it below the bottom of people's windows. +1 Steve started a wiki-page with ideas for a frontpage redesign some time ago (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Front_Page), but it seems like the process stopped. There were also some discussion about how prominent the map should be or if we should put more text on the frontpage (3 columns layout etc.) Jonas ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Search field on www.openstreetmap.org
Andy Allan wrote: It's worth pointing out that there are developers who are working on improving the search (primarily David Earl), so it's a known issue that's being worked on rather than something that's being ignored. Indeed. I am currently reloading the index from the planet file. The index hasn't been updated since January. Once reloaded it should then be kept up to date as before. The reload from scratch hasn't been done for nearly 18 months. In that time the planet file has grown enormously, so it is taking much longer than before (although that may also be down to the method, which is slightly different, to deal with the problems that caused us to suspend updates in the first place). The first two attempts also failed - finger trouble and the duff planet file last week. So it will be a while yet, but I am indeed working on it. David ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Search field on www.openstreetmap.org
Just out of curiosity, is the indexing/search code available somewhere? I'm intrigued by geosearch... Yann Le 30 juil. 09 à 17:01, David Earl a écrit : Andy Allan wrote: It's worth pointing out that there are developers who are working on improving the search (primarily David Earl), so it's a known issue that's being worked on rather than something that's being ignored. Indeed. I am currently reloading the index from the planet file. The index hasn't been updated since January. Once reloaded it should then be kept up to date as before. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Search field on www.openstreetmap.org
See the following: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Name_finder http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/namefinder Cheers, Andy On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Yann Coupiny...@coupin.net wrote: Just out of curiosity, is the indexing/search code available somewhere? I'm intrigued by geosearch... Yann Le 30 juil. 09 à 17:01, David Earl a écrit : Andy Allan wrote: It's worth pointing out that there are developers who are working on improving the search (primarily David Earl), so it's a known issue that's being worked on rather than something that's being ignored. Indeed. I am currently reloading the index from the planet file. The index hasn't been updated since January. Once reloaded it should then be kept up to date as before. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Search field on www.openstreetmap.org
Tom Hughes schrieb: The whole home page needs a redesign, and I don't really want to start fiddling with little things like this when we should be doing the job properly. There are also issues with search at the moment which mean we don't actually want to make it too prominent. Since the SOTM advert has been removed it should now be on the home page for most people anyway - the main problems come when there is extra stuff in the sidebar like the SOTM ad that pushes it below the bottom of people's windows. Hi! For small screen resolutions like 800*600 (e.g. on Netbooks) the search field is not visible for a long time and I guess this is still the case today. It was often requested (here, on talk-de or both?) to make it visible without scrolling on such machines. The problem exists for a long time, but it's just not visible on your or my screen ;-) Regards, ULFL ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
