I'm fairly sure that it has been discussed before (for a while pre-redesign we had such a link at least on the German version which we really should still have for legal reasons). I suspects the designers issue is using screen real estate for stuff that is not that often used.
It is simply the small matter of producing the code and a test instance of the rails port with the corresponding changes. Simon Am 01.05.2015 um 09:54 schrieb Colin Smale: > How about a new page on www.openstreetmap.org behind a new item > "Contact" in the top row menu (which has Help and About)? I am thinking > of a page which forwards users according to their scenario: > > If you would like to contribute to the map as an individual, click here > > If you would like to partner with OSM to improve the map, click here > > If you would like to re-use OSM data or have questions about licensing, > click here > > etc etc > > The current "Help" page is all about mapping, and the "About" page does > contain a link to OSMF but without any information about what the OSMF > is or does in the ecosystem. > > > > > > On 2015-05-01 09:45, Simon Poole wrote: > >> Am 01.05.2015 um 08:56 schrieb Colin Smale: >>> I wonder how a marketing department would react if their (potential) >>> customers complained they couldn't find the store. >> Gary knows very very very well who and how to contact if he actually had >> a question. Just as the handful of others in the geo-industry moaning, >> it is simply a meme for "you don't conform to our industry norm for a >> number of things and we think you should". >> >> It is a very particularly silly meme, because as pointed out, at least >> in modern times, I have yet to find anybody having issues or questions >> THAT REALLY WANTED AN ANSWER and was not purposely fumbling to make a >> statement, not finding out about the OSMF (or for local stuff one of the >> local organisations) and getting a response. >> >> Could it be easier? Sure, but google doesn't really care about our >> tendency to hide information behind multiple links (for example it takes >> two clicks from the main map page to find that the OSMF is the licensor >> of the data instead of one) so while not super convenient it is not HARD >> to find out. >> >> Simon >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org <mailto: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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