Maybe we could also leverage the new part of HTML 5 that enables geolocation to center the map on the user's current location. I know IE doesn't support it yet, but waiting for IE support of a new technology is pretty much like saying that you will lag years behind...
Yann Le 16 juin 09 à 21:14, Frederik Ramm a écrit : > Hi, > > Kevin Peat wrote: >> I don't think we should drop maps completely from the front page >> but I think >> we should show more of what is special about the project. > > That's what I was thinking. Whether "the map is the data" or not - > Google has a map, and it is (currently) more complete and faster than > ours, it has a better search function and aerial imagery on top of > that. > > Yes, ours has much more detail, ours is free for the taking and open > to > contributors, ours has a huge community behind it and has the data for > anyone who cares - but none of THAT is visible at first glance. > > It is probably very hard to make these advantages visible at first > glance, and we're not marketing or communications experts, but we > ought > to try. This does not mean the map has to vanish from page 1 but I'd > like to highlight the bits where we are actually better than everyone > else, rather than just catching up. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
