Personally, I want to congratulate and thank everyone who has put countless hours into this redesign over the last few months. This is a significant improvement over our current homepage and helps with the very serious issue that OSM simply looked *dated*. This is a beautiful, usable site, which is important not just for aesthetics, but also because of the competence it communicates. In addition, it's quite lovely on a mobile browser, which was a pleasant surprise!
Great work, everyone. I (we!) really appreciate the work you've done! Cheers, Kathleen On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Daniel Westergren <wes...@gmail.com> wrote: > As a rather new user I welcome a modernized start page, as well as better > ways of introducing new users. I avoided OSM for long, although being a > map-interested geek, due to a site looking out-dated and too steep learning > curve not really knowing where to start. > > Rather than saying it's a database (even Google Maps is a database, > presented as a map, although more or less homogenous), maybe add something > to describe that there is not ONE map, but the data can be used to produce > any kind of map-related data and render maps for different purposes. Refer > to the imagination of the visitor. > > Or why not use the description on the About page: "*OpenStreetMap powers > map data on hundreds of web sites, mobile apps, and hardware devices*"? > > I agree with others about importance to consult sight-impaired users, > removing urban-centred references like subway stations, keeping data > up-to-date not being the main agenda, export needing explanation and that a > Help link should be more prominent (put it where Export is now and put > Export where the Help is now, as Export is not something most people would > know how to use anyway). > > /Daniel > > > 2013/11/13 Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> > >> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Peter Barth <osm-t...@won2.de> wrote: >> >>> * History mostly always gives "No changesets in this area" for areas >>> smaller than whole europe >>> >> >> This is because the test website uses a completely separate database from >> the main OSM website, except for Nominatim search results and the tiles. So >> there is no changeset almost everywhere. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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