Hi Tom, I don't know how I have overlooked the rails-dev mailing list! Thanks for pointing this out, I will subscribe of course.
As I wrote in my other response, I understand about not being a clone of Google Maps or other mapping sites - but still I think there is some work to be done to make osm.org more usable or more web 2.0 I should say :-) Paweł On Wed, Jul 4, 2012, at 10:45, Tom Hughes wrote: > 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. > > Tom > > -- > Tom Hughes ([email protected]) > http://compton.nu/ > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
