Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-04 Thread Dave F
On 03/01/2017 22:16, David Woolley wrote: Actually, it only needs a vague concept. Some technology businesses don't actually develop the product until they already have a customer for it! (That's not even new; I learned it from a company I worked for about 25 years ago.) Didn't they all

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/04/2017 10:52 AM, Andy Robinson wrote: > I'm voting for the statue. Can I have a Robinson Tower too? Yes but this will limit your options for statue design to essentially https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6959831/jbareham_160818_1191_0102.0.jpg ... Bye Frederik --

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-03 Thread David Woolley
On 03/01/17 19:15, Dave F wrote: Indeed. A business needs something to sell before you can go scouting for customers. Actually, it only needs a vague concept. Some technology businesses don't actually develop the product until they already have a customer for it! (That's not even new; I

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rob Nickerson wrote: > If anyone is holding off from doing something just because the OSM UK > company is "coming", please don't. For one, you can make a great start > before OSM UK, but also there is no guarantee that OSM UK will work > on your specific idea. The main issue is that there are

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-03 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Richard, The delay has been long to date (over a year I believe), but things should move much quicker now. We could get something in for late February/March if we act quickly. As an aside, doing something tangible doesn't rely on the OSM UK company. As noted it has taken over a year to get to

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rob Nickerson wrote: > No, the first steps are to get people signed up as members (more > shortly when I have had a chance to speak with Gregory) and then > to host a first meeting. I see your point and it's great that so much work has gone into pre-thinking the incorporation and such like...

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-01 Thread Rob Nickerson
No, the first steps are to get people signed up as members (more shortly when I have had a chance to speak with Gregory) and then to host a first meeting. The intention is that we can discuss ideas of what to do at that meeting. I'm sure that there will be a wide range of ideas, many of which

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2017-01-01 Thread Steve Doerr
Great. Thanks. Obviously the first priority is to get a UK-friendly slippy map up on the front page: blue motorways, green trunks, clear differentiation between A, B, C, and other roads, postcode and OSGR lookups, etc. Steve Sent from my iPhone > On 1 Jan 2017, at 13:38, Rob Nickerson

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Shaun McDonald
> On 1 Jul 2016, at 16:38, Dennis Bauszus wrote: > > I have setup a wordpress site. > > http://osmuk.org/ > > Please drop me a mail if you want to become an editor and start posting or an > administrator and help with the general layout. I can

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Andrew Hain
Christian Ledermann writes: > > I'd also like to see an aggregator like http://planetpython.org/ or > http://planet.plone.org/ > to have a central place where all UK OSM related blogs are consolidated > which could be integrated in the main website (see

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Dave F
Hi To check, are editors able to create OSM slippy maps on this account? I believe there's a certain type of WP account that doesn't allow it. Cheers Dave F. On 01/07/2016 16:38, Dennis Bauszus wrote: I have setup a wordpress site. http://osmuk.org/ Please drop me a mail if you want to

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Dennis Bauszus
On 01/07/2016 13:27, Christian Ledermann wrote: I'd also like to see an aggregator like http://planetpython.org/ or http://planet.plone.org/ to have a central place where all UK OSM related blogs are consolidated which could be integrated in the main website (see http://iwlearn.net/news) As an

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Christian Ledermann
I'd also like to see an aggregator like http://planetpython.org/ or http://planet.plone.org/ to have a central place where all UK OSM related blogs are consolidated which could be integrated in the main website (see http://iwlearn.net/news) As an aside I've been developing websites (most of them

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Christian Ledermann
It very much depends what the focus of the website is and how it is going to be used. From a sysadmins point of view i am weary about wordpress (or joomla, drupal) because it requires constant vigilance to install the latest version and patches, which are quite frequent so the initial setup time

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM UK site

2016-07-01 Thread Harry Wood
I'm interested in helping out with an OSM UK website. I have a few ideas. Actually the thing I'm most interested in is what you're touching on here. I'm keen to avoid a situation where we have a website festering unmaintained, or even just having niggling things wrong with it, and no way for