I'm also in favor of such a first page... maybe organized as a splash screen (view/edit/get involved) on top of the existing map.
At least it shows that OSM if not only the default map. I would add one more thing "more tools" to link to other maps ans dites based on OSM data providing tools to end users (like mapquest, skobbler, openlinkmap, etc, etc). 2013/7/11 Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>: > Hi, > > > On 07/11/2013 11:12 AM, Ian Sergeant wrote: >> >> In my opinion, it was an unfortunate decision taken when >> openstreetmap.org <http://openstreetmap.org> moved from being the wiki >> >> site, to the being our own map rendering. > > > Time for me, again, to bring up this > > http://www.freeworldmap.org/draft-index3.html > > - a design that someone made about 10 years ago or so as a suggestion for a > new OSM front page. It was frequently discussed on the list (google for "osm > three column page" or so) and there were several versions circulating over > the years. > > I don't think anybody is suggesting to use this now, but I'm just writing to > say that there has always been a lot of support for the idea of showcasing > something other than the map. > > > Bye > Frederik > > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Christian Quest - OpenStreetMap France Un nouveau serveur pour OSM... http://donate.osm.org/server2013/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
