Re: [OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

2019-03-15 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, thanks for sharing. Some recurring / interesting topics I picked up: * More attention to community, local groups, mapping together, the ‘people’ aspect of OSM * Still have a map but smaller * More information directly on or accessible from main page, for example * How-to / learn

Re: [OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

2019-03-12 Thread Pierre Béland via talk
Mar 12, 2019, 5:58 PM by m...@rtijn.org:   Imagine the openstreetmap.org home page, but without the map.   What would the home page be about instead? What would be on it? Why not slightly redesign the front page with a colorfull top ribbon  + revising the content to  respond better to the public

Re: [OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

2019-03-12 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
Mar 12, 2019, 5:58 PM by m...@rtijn.org: > Imagine the openstreetmap.org home page, but without the map. > What would the home page be about instead? What would be on it? > Something that should be immediately removed to make a space for a map. ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

2019-03-12 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Di., 12. März 2019 um 18:02 Uhr schrieb Martijn van Exel : > Hi all, > > Here’s something I ask myself from time to time and would like to hear > other people’s thoughts about. > > Imagine the openstreetmap.org home page, but without the map. > What would the home page be about instead? What

Re: [OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

2019-03-12 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Tuesday 12 March 2019, Martijn van Exel wrote: > > Imagine the openstreetmap.org home page, but without the map. > What would the home page be about instead? You have to ask? Cat content obviously: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Lolcat.png Seriously though, OpenStreetMap without

Re: [OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

2019-03-12 Thread Ben Oliver
On 2019-03-12 19:12:16, Simon Poole wrote: what is the purpose of the website that you can reach on openstreetmap.org? I think it's great. You are putting the map front and centre, which to me says "look at what we've achieved, look at what you can be a part of". signature.asc Description:

Re: [OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

2019-03-12 Thread Simon Poole
Am 12.03.2019 um 17:58 schrieb Martijn van Exel: > Hi all, > > Here’s something I ask myself from time to time and would like to hear other > people’s thoughts about. How many times have we had this discussion in the last 15 years? And it will go absolutely no where just as all the previous

Re: [OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

2019-03-12 Thread Michael Collinson
In the spirit of a thought experiment: PRESENTATION A small thumbnail version of the current map and then a focus on links to map sites that the community feels are stable and a proper show-case: national maps, specialist maps (e.g. openseamap), routing services (perhaps with an emphasis on

Re: [OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

2019-03-12 Thread Imre Samu
>Imagine the openstreetmap.org home page, but without the map. I like the https://www.openstreetmap.fr/ and https://www.openstreetmap.de/ landing page. I would like more focus - on [community + software tools + data ] ( but the map is also important! Please don't remove! :) ) imho: we need

Re: [OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

2019-03-12 Thread Mikel Maron
A map built from data from the osm community index to connect to mapping communities https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron On Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 1:01:59 PM EDT, Martijn van Exel wrote: Hi all, Here’s something I ask

Re: [OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

2019-03-12 Thread Kathleen Lu via talk
> Imagine the openstreetmap.org home page, but without the map. > > I assume there would be a map, just that it would be a click away, right? > > Or maybe a smaller map, with context explaining OSM and how to get involved above and below the map, and an invitation to "explore the map" by clicking

Re: [OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

2019-03-12 Thread Bryce Jasmer
The home page would be a curated list of the different maps and tools that are built on OSM. Ones that are meant to be more for the end user, not a reference implementation of what a map could look like. And it would detect if you are on mobile and provide a list of apps that could be downloaded

Re: [OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

2019-03-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 3/12/19 5:58 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Imagine the openstreetmap.org home page, but without the map. I assume there would be a map, just that it would be a click away, right? > What would the home page be about instead? What would be on it? The page would be about the map-making

Re: [OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

2019-03-12 Thread James
would be pretty uselessit would reduce OSM to a database to which there is no way to view an example of what it is to common folk(non-technical) I imagine it would just be what is on wiki.osm.org with links/documentation like any other FOSS landing page: description of project, download link,

[OSM-talk] Your thoughts on osm.org

2019-03-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, Here’s something I ask myself from time to time and would like to hear other people’s thoughts about. Imagine the openstreetmap.org home page, but without the map. What would the home page be about instead? What would be on it? Thanks for sharing, Martijn