Re: [OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map
On 9/8/2014 11:18 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote: it has been some days that, when I visit openstreetmap.org, I am shown a nice box reminding me that SoTM is coming soon (see screenshot[1]), is there a way to use this system to promote local events (say local State of the Map conferences?). There are two issues with this. First, a technical one - no one has written the code to do so. This is, for obvious reasons, an absolute hard requirement. The second one is a policy one, on what to show, and to whom. SOTM is easy, as it's an OSMF event. It'd probably be annoying and dilute the value of the spot if there was a banner there the majority of the time. Including past non-OSMF events on the front page has been contentious, but we now have a Local Chapters template agreement, which might make that easier as we could tie that in, now having a definition for a local chapter. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map
2014-09-08 20:25 GMT+02:00 Paul Norman penor...@mac.com: On 9/8/2014 11:18 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote: it has been some days that, when I visit openstreetmap.org, I am shown a nice box reminding me that SoTM is coming soon (see screenshot[1]), is there a way to use this system to promote local events (say local State of the Map conferences?). There are two issues with this. First, a technical one - no one has written the code to do so. This is, for obvious reasons, an absolute hard requirement. The second one is a policy one, on what to show, and to whom. SOTM is easy, as it's an OSMF event. It'd probably be annoying and dilute the value of the spot if there was a banner there the majority of the time. Including past non-OSMF events on the front page has been contentious, but we now have a Local Chapters template agreement, which might make that easier as we could tie that in, now having a definition for a local chapter. Both are absolutely good points, for the first one can I suggest to use the same system that is used on Wikimedia websites? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geonotice Cristian ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map
On 9/8/2014 11:45 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote: Both are absolutely good points, for the first one can I suggest to use the same system that is used on Wikimedia websites? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geonotice Code to add geonotices to a Mediawiki wiki is unlikely to be directly applicable to the ruby on rails port which runs the website. I doubt it'd be hard to code, but again, it's a hard requirement that someone code it . ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map
2014-09-08 20:54 GMT+02:00 Paul Norman penor...@mac.com: On 9/8/2014 11:45 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote: Both are absolutely good points, for the first one can I suggest to use the same system that is used on Wikimedia websites? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geonotice Code to add geonotices to a Mediawiki wiki is unlikely to be directly applicable to the ruby on rails port which runs the website. I doubt it'd be hard to code, but again, it's a hard requirement that someone code it . (Ruby on Rails? i thought it was PHP!) (So, where's the code of the website?) Cristian ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map
On 9/8/2014 12:03 PM, Cristian Consonni wrote: (Ruby on Rails? i thought it was PHP!) With the exception of some API calls in C++, the code powering the website is all Ruby on Rails. There's also obviously user-facing Javascript. The map rendering and geocoding are not part of the website on a technical level, and have their own server stacks. (So, where's the code of the website?) The code of the website, as well as setup and contributing instructions are all at https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
