Frederik Ramm writes: > For me, the idea of a user friendly map portal (with a nice brand name > and matching apps, with maps, routing, geocoding, aerial imagery, > streetview imagery and all) is not a *bad* idea, and if someone made > such a portal they should certainly be encouraged to use OSM for it.
When I worked for Cloudmade I found a nice book on map projections. They bought it for me because they were nice that way. Without going into any of the projections, lesson #1 from that book is: every map has its compromises. All of them. So, purely from a technical standpoint, we shouldn't be telling people that Mapnik is the be-all and end-all of map tile sets. IMHO, Mapnik is the tile set for OSM editors. As such, it should be more concerned about completeness than anything else. And as such, map editors will be happy to click on a http://mapnik.osm.org link on the front page of OSM. It's probably MUCH better for our community of users if we give them a list of links to maps, than if we show them just one map. Make it a bunch of screen shots of the same place with links. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
