[OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map

2014-09-08 Thread Cristian Consonni
Hi all, 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?). Thanks, Cristian (an interested party :P)

Re: [OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map

2014-09-08 Thread Paul Norman
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

Re: [OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map

2014-09-08 Thread Cristian Consonni
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

Re: [OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map

2014-09-08 Thread Paul Norman
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

Re: [OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map

2014-09-08 Thread Cristian Consonni
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

Re: [OSM-talk] That nice popup about the State of the Map

2014-09-08 Thread Paul Norman
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