On 04/07/12 10:19, Paweł Paprota wrote:
I think a lot of things can be improved in terms of the OSM project front page usability to bring it more on par with similar offerings (Google Maps, Bing Maps). Some of them are listed and tracked in [1], true, but I am slightly confused on what is the general direction. Is it OK to just start hacking on the website project in github or is there some major overhaul coming up and it's better to wait/focus on other stuff?
Well the rails-dev list is where such stuff is mostly discussed so joining that would be a good start.
We were also having weekly IRC meetings on a Monday, but those seem to have stopped happening recently - we should probably revive them.
Enhancements are of course welcome, and pull requests on github are fine as a way of proposing a change.
The only note of caution I would sound, is that we are not trying to be a clone of Google Maps or Bing so be careful about trying to slavishly copy features from those sites - we are not trying to provide an all powerful end user mapping site but rather we are just trying to provide a visualisation of our data and tools to help people use it.
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