Hi,
I think the word 'usable' is being used in a strange way. When someone says
'adding the coordinates makes the map less usable' they mean 'Many people don't
know what that funny number means and when people see something they don't
understand, they feel unconfortable, so they are unlikely to visit this website
again'.
I myself dont have a clear opinion on whether the coordinates should be there
or not. Perhaps an intermediate decision: the coordinates would appear if the
mouse keeps still for 2 seconds.
Apart from this, I'd like to congratulate the person who has taken the time to
transform Spherical Mercator coordinates to longitude and latitude (bottom
right corner in http://www.informationfreeway.org). I think that person should
be asked to redesign the scale bar in http://www.openstreetmap.org)
And a question: nobody showed the difference between the Cape Town map on OSM
and on Google Maps in the FOSS4G conference?
cheers
Lucas
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De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de elvin ibbotson
Enviado el: mar 07/10/2008 9:28
Para: Steve Coast
CC: Talk Openstreetmap
Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org
From: SteveC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2 October 2008 22:51:14 BDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org
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On 1 Oct 2008, at 11:01, Ulf Mehlig wrote:
Hello Frederik, thanks for your answer. The coordinate display
at
www.informationfreeway.org is what I was looking for. Wouldn't
it be
possible to integrate this function into the main OpenStreetMap
site? I
think this would definitely improve the attractiveness of the
map
display (even more, if degree-minute-second based coordinates
would
appear, too -- for many people, the decimal coordinates are not
what
they're used to).
Just demonstrably not true. Most people don't know what co-ordinates
are or care that they don't know. It would just clutter the map and make us
look less usable.
Best
Steve,
It looks like fakeSteveC or someone is pretending to be you and posting
elitist, patronising, condescending rubbish in an apparent attempt to make you
look foolish. I look forward to it being demonstrated that 'most people don't
know what coordinates are'.
elvin ibbotson
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