Re: [OSM-talk] Bringing new life to the OSM.org front page

2013-07-23 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Finally, a few other things to note: * With over 1 million registered users it is impossible to please everyone. Please put things into perspective before replying with negative comments. Also consideration of the

[OSM-talk] Bringing new life to the OSM.org front page

2013-07-20 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi All, As noted the map controls have recently changed on the main osm.org page. On the talk@ mailing list there was a few comments stating that it would have been nice to have been asked/consulted first. The changes were in fact announced and stem from Saman's SOTM US talk (slides [1], video

Re: [OSM-talk] Bringing new life to the OSM.org front page

2013-07-20 Thread Rob Nickerson
I should add that this change lays the foundations for making new feature available. For example a URL link including marker (the mlat and mlon stuff). This can be seen here: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/328#issuecomment-21197529 Best, Rob

Re: [OSM-talk] Bringing new life to the OSM.org front page

2013-07-20 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.comwrote: Personally, I'm loving the work Saman (and team) is doing - there are some really nice ideas shown in his slides. I agree it looks elegant. I can't wait to see him implement the rest of his proposals. --

Re: [OSM-talk] Bringing new life to the OSM.org front page

2013-07-20 Thread Johannes Kröger
Where would you stop if it was decided to post announcements to the community. http://blog.openstreetmap.org/ would be the perfect news channel. It allows passive and active participation without the need of registering or installing specific software. You can point anyone at it and they see a

Re: [OSM-talk] Bringing new life to the OSM.org front page

2013-07-20 Thread Tom MacWright
Hi there, I am with OSM for 5 years and I do not fully know who is responsible for things, who has the final words on other things. I often see names reappear here and there, and over time I got some ideas but it would be really nice to just have an overview of the actual executive teams of

Re: [OSM-talk] Bringing new life to the OSM.org front page

2013-07-20 Thread Johannes Kröger
Tom MacWright t...@macwright.org schrieb: Cheers, Tom, author of the presentation system that does the obnoxiously huge anti-readable text That was some silly and unrelated passive aggressive nonsense, sorry. I was trying to read through the presentation on my desktop and gave up. Didn't mean

Re: [OSM-talk] Bringing new life to the OSM.org front page

2013-07-20 Thread Rob Nickerson
1) The map controls change was publicised on the blog on the 19th (at the time of the change): http://blog.openstreetmap.org/2013/07/19/new-map-control/ 2) The Communications Working Group is currently looking for help - why not join them: