Re: [OSM-talk] Title bars (dynamic updating of)

2009-08-02 Thread OJ W
that's easy enough to do It would need to be in rails to go on the main page though, so if any ruby programmer wants to implement it, I can tell them what needs doing? (use the zoom level to choose 3 appropriately-spaced points around the lat/lon, lookup the placenames at each point (optionally

Re: [OSM-talk] Title bars (dynamic updating of)

2009-08-02 Thread John Smith
--- On Sun, 2/8/09, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: You have to make some assumptions about screen size though - 50.5,-0.2 @z11 on a mobile phone might be 'central london', while the same query on Al Gore's array of monitors might be 'europe' Can't you get screen resolution and then

Re: [OSM-talk] Title bars (dynamic updating of)

2009-08-02 Thread Tom Hughes
On 02/08/09 11:06, OJ W wrote: It would need to be in rails to go on the main page though, so if any ruby programmer wants to implement it, I can tell them what needs doing? (use the zoom level to choose 3 appropriately-spaced points around the lat/lon, lookup the placenames at each point

[OSM-talk] Title bars (dynamic updating of)

2009-08-01 Thread OJ W
Most of the slippy-maps I've seen so far have OpenStreetMap or similar as the document title. While nicely minimalist, it doesn't always describe what you're looking at on screen. Imagine if it said OpenStreetMap Oxfordshire, United Kingdom instead...

Re: [OSM-talk] Title bars (dynamic updating of)

2009-08-01 Thread Emilie Laffray
OJ W wrote: Most of the slippy-maps I've seen so far have OpenStreetMap or similar as the document title. While nicely minimalist, it doesn't always describe what you're looking at on screen. Imagine if it said OpenStreetMap Oxfordshire, United Kingdom instead...

Re: [OSM-talk] Title bars (dynamic updating of)

2009-08-01 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 13:38, OJ Wojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: Imagine if it said OpenStreetMap Oxfordshire, United Kingdom instead... http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/TitlebarDemo/?zoom=11lat=51.76lon=-1.282 Awesome! I really like all the stuff you have been coding lately (the business

Re: [OSM-talk] Title bars (dynamic updating of)

2009-08-01 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/8/1 OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com: Most of the slippy-maps I've seen so far have OpenStreetMap or similar as the document title.   While nicely minimalist, it doesn't always describe what you're looking at on screen. Imagine if it said OpenStreetMap Oxfordshire, United Kingdom instead...

Re: [OSM-talk] Title bars (dynamic updating of)

2009-08-01 Thread Ed Avis
OJ W ojwlists at googlemail.com writes: Imagine if it said OpenStreetMap Oxfordshire, United Kingdom instead... http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/TitlebarDemo/?zoom=11lat=51.76lon=-1.282 You mean instead of OpenSteetMap Oxfordshire, United Kingdom? Yes that would be cool! Spelling apart,

Re: [OSM-talk] Title bars (dynamic updating of)

2009-08-01 Thread Stefan Baebler
Cool! For SEO reasons it could be really nice if this title would be present in html title tag already while the html is being sent to the client...and not delaying the initial response at the same time :) Stefan On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Ed Avise...@waniasset.com wrote: OJ W ojwlists at