Robin Paulson wrote: >Sent: 29 August 2008 5:09 PM >To: OSM Talk >Subject: [OSM-talk] how not to showcase osm > >so, there i was with a captive audience (my local lug mailing list), >who were expecting to be e-mailed a google maps link for the location >of a meetup next week. no, i thought, i'll send them an osm link - >auckland's looking pretty good now, i should encourage people to use >that > >so, i fired up ff3, went to openstreetmap.org and waited.....and >waited. and it stopped. hit refresh. nothing. tried again. still >nothing > >no matter, i'll go to informationfreeway.org. i zoomed to the area, >right-clicked 'permalink' and pasted it in the e-mail. great. > >except no, cos when everyone clicked the link, it went to >informationfreeway.org and waited....and waited... and stopped, with a >white screen, only showing the zoom and pan controls > >http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=- >36.87730854072706&lon=174.7505575972425&zoom=17&layers=B000F000F > >great. > >sorry for wingeing unconstructively, but i felt foolish, and this >makes us all look hopeless
I can't answer why OSM map access was not present, well not unless you can give the time the event took place, but rarely is it offline for long. You also did not say if you were trying to reach the Mapnik or Osmarender layer. OSM only controls the former. OSM does not control informationfreeway.org either. When linking to the map its best to use the Mapnik layer bearing in mind of course that it can lag behind the latest renderings in Osmarender. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
