Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary and unrelated images on the about page

2013-12-03 Thread Robert Scott
On Monday 02 December 2013, Christoph Hormann wrote: TopOSM: http://toposm.ahlzen.com/ (various examples on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TopOSM) OpenSeaMap: http://map.openseamap.org/?zoom=14lat=56.04136lon=12.63945layers=BFTFFFTFFFT0 OSM2World:

Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary and unrelated images on the about page

2013-12-02 Thread Pieren
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Going from left to right, of 4 (identifiable) images only 1 is OSM related (the watercolour rendering), while the mapbox rendering doesn't show osm data (besides maybe the coastline), the country map is

Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary and unrelated images on the about page

2013-12-02 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/12/2 Pieren pier...@gmail.com For sure, contour lines are not part of OSM but it makes nice images. It's all about marketing ;-) While I agree that the image is visually appealing, I still dispute that it is suitable for representing OSM on our main about page. We do have lots of lots

Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary and unrelated images on the about page

2013-12-02 Thread Kathleen Danielson
Hi Martin, Can you provide some compelling examples of images that you'd like to see us using instead? On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/2 Pieren pier...@gmail.com For sure, contour lines are not part of OSM but it makes nice images.

Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary and unrelated images on the about page

2013-12-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Kathleen Danielson kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Martin, Can you provide some compelling examples of images that you'd like to see us using instead? It isn't easy is it? No rendering will satisfy everyone, and even a collection of renderings will

Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary and unrelated images on the about page

2013-12-02 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Monday 02 December 2013, Kathleen Danielson wrote: Can you provide some compelling examples of images that you'd like to see us using instead? TopOSM: http://toposm.ahlzen.com/ (various examples on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TopOSM) OpenSeaMap:

Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary and unrelated images on the about page

2013-12-02 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/12/2 Christoph Hormann chris_horm...@gmx.de TopOSM: OpenSeaMap: OSM2World: The Heat maps from: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SotM_2011_session:_Insert_Coin_To_Play The normal map in regions with non-latin script (demonstrating the international and multilingual character of

[OSM-talk] proprietary and unrelated images on the about page

2013-11-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
The header image on this page http://www.openstreetmap.org/about has not so much to do with OSM. http://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/about/osm-dced8787df489e83b403e979f2bf055d.png Going from left to right, of 4 (identifiable) images only 1 is OSM related (the watercolour rendering), while the