Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-29 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2013-07-21 22:06, Yohan Boniface wrote: On 07/21/2013 09:49 PM, Maarten Deen wrote: IMHO at the moment they have become superfluous. There is no way anymore to zoom in or out more than one step at a time by using on-map controls as there was with the old slider. So I'm using the mouse now

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-28 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Michal To come back this thread I'm interested in what you refer to by Gamification. What was Saman referring to in his talk regarding gamification of the OSM UI? I found the video of the presentation but can't find any hint in this direction:

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-28 Thread Janko Mihelić
2013/7/28 Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com OSM UI? I found the video of the presentation but can't find any hint in this direction: http://vimeopro.com/openstreetmapus/state-of-the-map-us-2013/video/68093877 I assume that you are referring to some statistics displayed about users which to

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-28 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote: I think statistics are enough for gamification. You can have lots of badges like Biggest contributor in Belgium - most nodes in Belgium Road admiral of Alabama - most roads in Alabama Power man of Bavaria - biggest

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-28 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Bryce and Janko It seems that I have triggered many ideas about Gamification of data capturing in OSM. I have some visions too from the existing Kort Game. But for discussing this, I think, we should fork this thread. I think such highscores don't belong (yet) to the main website os OSM. So

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-28 Thread Kathleen Danielson
There are a lot of ways to approach gamification. I'm not saying whether or not we should, but we probably should avoid blanket statements that all gamification is bad. For example, another route we could take is a more traditional badge model that rewards you for achievements (You made your

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-28 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: I think such highscores don't belong (yet) to the main website os OSM. So what I still like to find out, is, what triggered the opposition to gamification. I can't find Saman mentioning gamification in his presentation

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-23 Thread Michal Migurski
On Jul 22, 2013, at 7:21 AM, Simon Poole wrote: Am 21.07.2013 20:18, schrieb Michal Migurski: Supporting official venues for orderly change is what the board should be doing, but is not. I would support the creation and use of a proposal/vote/implementation process for the community, even if

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-22 Thread rainerU
Am 21.07.2013 20:47, schrieb Richard Fairhurst: You only have to follow one mailing list: rails-dev@. As its name says, this list is about development. The discussion in this thread is about requirements. Its a good practice to clearly separate discussion of requirements from their

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-22 Thread Tom Hughes
On 21/07/13 22:01, Frederik Ramm wrote: PS: If I reply to a message on rails-dev, will it land in the proper github ticket discussion? I tried it once a while ago and found that my comments were not there, and it seemed that some people were reading via rails-dev and got my message while others

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-22 Thread Simon Poole
Am 21.07.2013 20:18, schrieb Michal Migurski: Supporting official venues for orderly change is what the board should be doing, but is not. I would support the creation and use of a proposal/vote/implementation process for the community, even if the first proposal is just be it resolved that

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-22 Thread colliar
Am 21.07.2013 22:01, schrieb Frederik Ramm: Hi, On 21.07.2013 21:28, Kai Krueger wrote: It begs the question, if this high level design decisions shouldn't live on the design@ list instead of rails-dev or in the git-hub bug tracker. Yes, I can imagine that to some a you only have to

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-21 Thread Pieren
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 20/07/2013 12:57, Paul Norman wrote: Rails port pull requests?!?! wtf. : I really think some developers are living in their own world. lol. They do ! If you missed the discussion because you don't watch the

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-21 Thread Michal Migurski
On Jul 21, 2013, at 5:42 AM, Pieren wrote: On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 20/07/2013 12:57, Paul Norman wrote: Rails port pull requests?!?! wtf. : I really think some developers are living in their own world. lol. They do ! If you missed the

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-21 Thread Tom MacWright
Hey, Let's also not lose the fact that this thread started with 'Should we remove the +/- buttons' and has visited about 10 topics in 37 emails since then. Maybe it's time to start fresh with a focused thread. Tom On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Michal Migurski m...@teczno.com wrote: On Jul

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Michal Migurski wrote: On Jul 21, 2013, at 5:42 AM, Pieren wrote: If you missed the discussion because you don't watch the non-localized 35 mailing lists [...] I don't know, and I don't want to have to subscribe to Github pull requests to find out. You only have to follow one mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-21 Thread Michal Migurski
On Jul 21, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Michal Migurski wrote: On Jul 21, 2013, at 5:42 AM, Pieren wrote: If you missed the discussion because you don't watch the non-localized 35 mailing lists [...] I don't know, and I don't want to have to subscribe to Github pull

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-21 Thread Kai Krueger
It begs the question, if this high level design decisions shouldn't live on the design@ list instead of rails-dev or in the git-hub bug tracker. rails-dev can sometimes have a reasonably high volume and most of it is boring technical detail, like e.g. if oauth needs relative or absolute URLs to

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-21 Thread Michal Migurski
On Jul 21, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Kai Krueger wrote: It begs the question, if this high level design decisions shouldn't live on the design@ list instead of rails-dev or in the git-hub bug tracker. rails-dev can sometimes have a reasonably high volume and most of it is boring technical detail,

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-21 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2013-07-21 20:18, Michal Migurski wrote: The new icons and map controls are good and I'm getting accustomed to them, but the process by which they made it onto the site worries me. IMHO at the moment they have become superfluous. There is no way anymore to zoom in or out more than one

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 21.07.2013 21:28, Kai Krueger wrote: It begs the question, if this high level design decisions shouldn't live on the design@ list instead of rails-dev or in the git-hub bug tracker. Yes, I can imagine that to some a you only have to follow rails-dev is a very hitchhikers-guidesque

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-21 Thread Yohan Boniface
On 07/21/2013 09:49 PM, Maarten Deen wrote: IMHO at the moment they have become superfluous. There is no way anymore to zoom in or out more than one step at a time by using on-map controls as there was with the old slider. So I'm using the mouse now to zoom in or out. Maybe not everybody knows

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-21 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2013-07-21 22:06, Yohan Boniface wrote: On 07/21/2013 09:49 PM, Maarten Deen wrote: IMHO at the moment they have become superfluous. There is no way anymore to zoom in or out more than one step at a time by using on-map controls as there was with the old slider. So I'm using the mouse now

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-21 Thread Yohan Boniface
Humm... Just to be clear: I'm not involved in anyway in osm.org redesign. I've given this tip because it seems to me that the topic was about keeping or not the +/- buttons, and imho it's a useful tip for people who, like me, doesn't use a mouse. Yohan On 07/21/2013 10:47 PM, Maarten Deen

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread James Mast
I'm personally not liking that they now have hidden the long/short links to the map location behind buttons. Instead of just one click to get the map location, now it's two clicks and is really annoying and slowing down work for me. :( -James

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 15:16:10 James Mast wrote: I'm personally not liking that they now have hidden the long/short links to the map location behind buttons. Instead of just one click to get the map location, now it's two clicks and is really annoying and slowing down work for me. :( -James

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 20/07/2013 01:07, Dave F. a écrit : Hi Does anybody use the +/- zoom controls? I thought it was all mouse wheels/pad gestures finger gestures to zoom in out. Are they needed any more? Dave F. Oh, yes, they are. I use them to see the wide region around a spot, e.g. find the big city

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
James Mast wrote: I'm personally not liking that they now have hidden the long/short links to the map location behind buttons. Instead of just one click to get the map location, now it's two clicks and is really annoying and slowing down work for me. :( Ok, I've said this at least three

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Mikel Maron
@openstreetmap.org Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 9:39 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls Andrew Errington wrote: Also, my proposal for including a markerlink has not been taken up. Yet. Rome wasn't built in a day. I also didn't see any consultation on this topic.  Just another fait

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Paul Norman
From: Andrew Errington [mailto:erringt...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 11:42 PM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls I also didn't see any consultation on this topic. Just another fait accompli. The pull request and automatic mail

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2013-07-20 08:16, James Mast wrote: I'm personally not liking that they now have hidden the long/short links to the map location behind buttons. Instead of just one click to get the map location, now it's two clicks and is really annoying and slowing down work for me. :( I agree to that.

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2013-07-20 10:25, Richard Fairhurst wrote: James Mast wrote: I'm personally not liking that they now have hidden the long/short links to the map location behind buttons. Instead of just one click to get the map location, now it's two clicks and is really annoying and slowing down work for me.

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Mikel Maron
Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron From: Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl To: talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 10:49 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls On 2013-07-20 08:16, James Mast wrote: I'm personally not liking

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2013-07-20 11:29, Paul Norman wrote: From: Andrew Errington [mailto:erringt...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 11:42 PM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls I also didn't see any consultation on this topic. Just another fait accompli. The pull

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
On Sábado, 20 de julio de 2013 10:55:58 Mikel Maron escribió: I miss the white lines on blurry Landsat background. So simple and elegant. Can someone set that up and make it an option in the layer switcher? ;) Those were the times :-D -- -- Iván Sánchez Ortega

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:39:18 Richard Fairhurst wrote: Andrew Errington wrote: Also, my proposal for including a markerlink has not been taken up. Yet. Rome wasn't built in a day. I also didn't see any consultation on this topic. Just another fait accompli. Hey Andrew, I noticed you

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:25:27 Richard Fairhurst wrote: James Mast wrote: I'm personally not liking that they now have hidden the long/short links to the map location behind buttons. Instead of just one click to get the map location, now it's two clicks and is really annoying and slowing

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 20.07.2013 01:38, schrieb Dave F.: On 20/07/2013 00:22, Toby Murray wrote: You aren't in the #osm IRC channel, are you :) No. I can't stand the cliquey, unilateral time zone defined exclusion of that. I prefer to discuss with *all* in *all* timezones. A while back a decision was made to

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 20.07.2013 11:53, schrieb Maarten Deen: On 2013-07-20 10:25, Richard Fairhurst wrote: James Mast wrote: I'm personally not liking that they now have hidden the long/short links to the map location behind buttons. Instead of just one click to get the map location, now it's two clicks and

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2013-07-20 13:35, Peter Wendorff wrote: Am 20.07.2013 11:53, schrieb Maarten Deen: On 2013-07-20 10:25, Richard Fairhurst wrote: James Mast wrote: I'm personally not liking that they now have hidden the long/short links to the map location behind buttons. Instead of just one click to get the

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Paul Norman
Whoops - resending to the right talk@ list From: Maarten Deen [mailto:md...@xs4all.nl] Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 2:57 AM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls On 2013-07-20 11:29, Paul Norman wrote: From: Andrew Errington [mailto:erringt

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2013-07-20 12:33, Paul Norman wrote: From: Maarten Deen [mailto:md...@xs4all.nl] Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 2:57 AM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls On 2013-07-20 11:29, Paul Norman wrote: From: Andrew Errington [mailto:erringt...@gmail.com] Sent

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Lester Caine
Andrew Errington wrote: On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 15:16:10 James Mast wrote: I'm personally not liking that they now have hidden the long/short links to the map location behind buttons. Instead of just one click to get the map location, now it's two clicks and is really annoying and slowing down

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Tom MacWright
Hi James, That issue has been reported and is being worked on: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/356 On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 20/07/2013 12:57, Paul Norman wrote: Whoops - resending to the right talk@ list Which

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread James Mast
your e-mail arrived. I bet TomH will probably mark it as a duplicate very soon. lol. -James From: t...@macwright.org Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 19:09:27 -0400 To: dave...@madasafish.com CC: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls Hi James, That issue has been reported

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Paul Norman
From: Maarten Deen [mailto:md...@xs4all.nl] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls http://lists.osm.org/pipermail/talk/2013-July/067499.html (in reply to Andrew Errington) Okay, so you even have to read all threads, even if you don't find them insteresting anymore... My

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Dave F.
On 20/07/2013 09:25, Richard Fairhurst wrote: James Mast wrote: I'm personally not liking that they now have hidden the long/short links to the map location behind buttons. Instead of just one click to get the map location, now it's two clicks and is really annoying and slowing down work for

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Tom MacWright
Hi Dave, Please be civil, we're all trying our best to be nice and make progress here. It's inappropriate to start ad-hominem attacking developers, especially in the case of Saman - who is in fact a designer, not to mention a real person, in the real world, with actual emotions. Thanks, Tom

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Jason Remillard
I just watched all 30 minutes of the video. I am a professional software engineer, the designer seemed extremely competent. Because of the presentation, I trust that the people working on his know what they are doing and I am very excited to see what comes next. Please lets give them some space to

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Dave F.
Hello Tom I reject mildly resent your criticism that I made an ad hominem attack. I know nothing personally of this man. My criticisms are based purely on his inability to communicate clearly. As the primary reason for his lecture was to explain the new layout I feel perfectly entitled to

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Kathleen Danielson
My criticisms are based purely on his inability to communicate clearly. Dave, As you say, you know nothing personally of this man, and yet you have discerned he is unable to communicate? Saman is not above criticism. However, we, as a community, are above sweeping statements such as the ones

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Dave F.
My reply is going private as it's now OT. On 21/07/2013 02:17, Kathleen Danielson wrote: My criticisms are based purely on his inability to communicate clearly. Dave, As you say, you know nothing personally of this man, and yet you have discerned he is unable to communicate? Saman

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-20 Thread Paul Norman
From: Maarten Deen [mailto:md...@xs4all.nl] Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 2:57 AM To: t...@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls On 2013-07-20 11:29, Paul Norman wrote: From: Andrew Errington [mailto:erringt...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 11:42 PM

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-19 Thread Toby Murray
You aren't in the #osm IRC channel, are you :) Turns out, yes... they are still used. It was actually interesting to watch a coworker who doesn't know much about online maps interacting with osm.org. This was a month or so ago. They actually used the pan controls instead of dragging the map. I

[OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-19 Thread Dave F.
Hi Does anybody use the +/- zoom controls? I thought it was all mouse wheels/pad gestures finger gestures to zoom in out. Are they needed any more? Dave F. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-19 Thread Dave F.
On 20/07/2013 00:22, Toby Murray wrote: You aren't in the #osm IRC channel, are you :) No. I can't stand the cliquey, unilateral time zone defined exclusion of that. I prefer to discuss with *all* in *all* timezones. A while back a decision was made to change something in OSM (apologies, I

Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls

2013-07-19 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 20.07.2013 01:07, Dave F. wrote: Does anybody use the +/- zoom controls? I thought it was all mouse wheels/pad gestures finger gestures to zoom in out. I don't use these controls if I can avoid it, but sometimes I'm stuck with them. Examples include browser compatibility issues (Firefox