I agree. Adding more functionality to OpenStreetMap.org means that people will use it as a go-to mapping site for things like routing and recommend it to others.
This means they'll probably find errors/incompleteness... and they can then fix them or tag them with a note. I know plenty of people who, because of my frequent linking to openstreetmap.org, have joined and fixed a few basic things in their area: adding a pub here or there etc. Making openstreetmap.org more useful for users will hopefully mean there is an increased supply of people who want to edit the map. And if they are just seeing a map in Foursquare or another app, they don't exactly see that there's an edit button. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ On 9 July 2013 at 13:54:54, Marc Gemis (marc.ge...@gmail.com) wrote: People will "stumble" more easily on the OpenStreetMap site than on any of the other sites (umap, OSRM, etc..). Most press articles are about OpenStreetMap, so they search for that brand; thus they will end up on the openstreetmap.org website. The list of all services is also neatly "hidden" on the wiki. How many first time visitors will go from the main page to that page ? I understand that the main website is targeted towards contributors, but that is not clear from just looking at the website. People see a map and probably want to use it in a google way. They compare the features and assume that OpenStreetMap has to offer less. They will not look for an alternative service based upon OSM. just my .5 cents _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
