You will find links to wiki and help.osm.org via the Link help on
the top. But in my opinion it is too complicated to click twice.
The other way arround why do we need an Export button at such a
prominent position? If we really need this it should be moved to the
export/share sidebar.
The Link to
Christian Quest wrote:
No more links to:
- the wiki
- the copyright/licence stuff
- help.osm.org
André has already mentioned two of these, and the copyright/licence
page is linked both from the attribution on the map and from the
About page.
Ed
Exporting capabilities is that makes OSM stand out. this is what we
do: we provide data for anyone for every use. It is important to keep
the export tab prominent.
Me too, I dont like the fact documentation links did disappear from
the home page. cant we have a drop down menu with links to the
How often is it used? In my opinion newbies think you could export a
vector image. Then they find out it is only a xml file with (for the
first moment) useless content. I would calll me a long time
contributor and never had the need of an xml-export at the front page.
If we want to promote this,
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:52 AM, André Riedel riedel.an...@gmail.com wrote:
If we want to promote this, we need a description page with links to
the planet file, country excerpts, small exports (from the osm-server)
and to larger exports via the overpass API or overpass turbo page.
good idea.
Pros:
- the layers tab is smaller vertically. It could be even better by
taking off the other maps samples which are unnecessarily overloading
the other tiles servers each time someone opens this tab.
- looks more modern
Cons:
- text attributs for the top menus. Fonts are very thin and colours
What is the goal of the redesign ?
Get new active contributors ?
Get new users ?
Moving the wiki/help/license link away makes me feel we're moving slowly to
the second choice which does not look to me as a good idea.
I'm expecting the OSM front page to clearly explain that anybody can
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Date: Tuesday, 12 November 2013
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Hi
Thanks everyone for their great work. I like the new design. Lot of space
for the map itself, clearly
No more links to:
- the wiki
- the copyright/licence stuff
- help.osm.org
What about translations ?
2013/11/13 Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com
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