Where have the translations gone ? The welcome, help and about are now
english only ? This is the most critical point in this switch that looks a
bit premature to me.
Browsing objects gives way too much space for the map, hiding some tag
values.
When checking show map data, there used to be a
I believe that is just a result of that the original text (English) only
gets pushed to translatewiki when it has been deployed (without doing
something special which we did for the welcome page a while ago). AFAIK
now it is just a question of translating the new bits and then waiting
for the
On 00:35 2013-12-02, Christian Quest wrote:
Where have the translations gone ? The welcome, help and about are now
english only ? This is the most critical point in this switch that looks
a bit premature to me.
The OSM website is translated at translatewiki.net. Every time an
interface
On 02/12/13 09:16, Simon Poole wrote:
I believe that is just a result of that the original text (English) only
gets pushed to translatewiki when it has been deployed (without doing
something special which we did for the welcome page a while ago). AFAIK
now it is just a question of translating
On 1 December 2013 12:37, Lester Caine wrote:
The new setup seems to be saying 'if you are not here to map go away!' If
this is really the case then perhaps we need a NEW site for those of us who
contribute data with a view to actually using it live?
http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
? That is a
Barry Hunter wrote:
The new setup seems to be saying 'if you are not here to map go away!' If
this is really the case then perhaps we need a NEW site for those of us who
contribute data with a view to actually using it live?
http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
? That is a site for end users of OSM
open.mapquest.co.uk only seems to find banks and bars that are mapped as nodes.
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On 02/12/2013 13:16 Barry Hunter wrote:
On 1 December 2013 12:37, Lester Caine wrote:
The new setup seems to be saying 'if you are not here to map go away!' If
this
On 2 December 2013 13:54, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote:
Barry Hunter wrote:
The new setup seems to be saying 'if you are not here to map go away!'
If
this is really the case then perhaps we need a NEW site for those of us
who
contribute data with a view to actually using it live?
Le 30.11.2013 20:24, SomeoneElse a crit:
1) On the main osm.org site, the extra space taken up by the bar at the top and the huge "welcome" area at the left distracts from the map in a way that the rectangular left-hand bar didn't - it's easier to mentally exclude a left-hand bar and concentrate
JB wrote:
Besides, now that I'm connected, but do not have a picture to illustrate myself in my profile, where/how do I click on modify ?
It certainly doesn't look like that for me. Perhaps you need to see
if someone's already logged a
Paul Norman wrote:
I know that there is a lot of support for NOT providing services
I'd say there's a wide desire for offering services like OWL and routing
on OSM.org. Of course, these take development hours, time, and money, so
a wide desire doesn't translate into actually adding the
My 2 cents: the deployment yesterday was the final step to making the
design and the user interaction consistent over the the whole site
(forgetting about the handful of real usability issues that should be
addressed). The baby steps that had been made over the last year or so
had led to a
Am 01.12.2013 11:25, schrieb Lester Caine:
...
And I still need to find out where the 'export' is intended to go? Is
that were we should be able to create embeded frames or somewhere
else? Share does not provide the material and hacking the code
manually is not something novice users can do
On 1 Dec 2013, at 10:25, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote:
Paul Norman wrote:
I know that there is a lot of support for NOT providing services
I'd say there's a wide desire for offering services like OWL and routing
on OSM.org. Of course, these take development hours, time, and money,
Martin wrote:
the wiki was linked directly. Our wiki is the principal (loosely)
structured key about osm, created by the community. Its starting
page is a good entry if you want to get serious, and I am sure
also
longtime contributors go there rather often.
I think it is better on the Help
Shaun McDonald wrote:
osm.org is aimed at mappers and people mapping, rather than as a general
purpose go to site for navigation.
I'm not arguing otherwise, but at present even FINDING another site that CAN be
used for routing from the new front page is a nightmare. Alright the old page
was
Lester:
The about page is VERY short on help to get to other material (
but I
do not
object to advertising sponsors on that page ), and I probably need
to
try the
site as a cold user to se if registering a new account is any more
helpful, but
trying to establish what is needed to help
Ed Loach wrote:
Lester:
The about page is VERY short on help to get to other material (
but I
do not
object to advertising sponsors on that page ), and I probably need
to
try the
site as a cold user to se if registering a new account is any more
helpful, but
trying to establish what is
Hi,
On 30.11.2013 20:57, SomeoneElse wrote:
Understood (hence my Henry Ford quote) but on that general point - can
anyone explain in what way the new site is better than the old one?
Most people who reacted favourably to the new design said things like it
looked fresher or more modern.
Most
Frederik Ramm wrote:
This redesign was done by employees of MapBox, and they spent a lot of
time on it. I'd prefer them to weigh in in this thread themselves
Thanks Frederik. I think that it would help if they did; it might help
to put a human face on some of the design decisions beyond a
On 18:17 2013-12-01, SomeoneElse wrote:
The changeset close time has a dotted underline and
the mouse pointer changes from a hand to a question mark - I still don't
know what this is supposed to signify.
That's HTML's abbr tag. It's primarily meant to give abbr
title=three-letter
How do I close the Welcome to openstreetmap box on the new map page?
Regards,
Maarten
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How do I close the Welcome to openstreetmap box on the new map page?
Regards,
Maarten
Hi Maarten,
Firstly a big thank you to everyone who worked on the new design for
OpenStreetMap.org website. I'm not going to try to name everyone as I am
bound to miss someone out, but as you will see online
On 2013-11-30 13:51, Rob Nickerson wrote:
How do I close the Welcome to openstreetmap box on the new map
page?
[snip]
On the subject of the Welcome Text, the idea of being able to close
the welcome box was discussed but ultimately not implemented. The box
does go away if you log in. I should
Rob Nickerson wrote:
I appreciate that this may not be what you wanted to hear, but as with any big
change, there is likely to be a few teething issues.
Unfortunatly this has now broken many inter site links so personally I'm looking
for a route to retore a more usable interface for those of
Lester Caine wrote:
I appreciate that this may not be what you wanted to hear, but as with any big
change, there is likely to be a few teething issues.
Unfortunatly this has now broken many inter site links so personally I'm looking
for a route to retore a more usable interface for those of us
Lester Caine wrote:
This new front page simply does not work on many levels and I hope I'm not the
only person who thinks that?
No this is getting even more iritating ...
Can someone with the capability to sort out DNS PLEASE create
old.openstreetmap.org with a link to the old front page.
Hi Lester,
If you are after a full screen map for your website, it is very easy to
create one with a simple html page that links to Leaflet (the tool for
providing pan and zoom, etc) and the tiles server at OSM. I've attached
something I was able to get up and running quite quickly. My web
Rob Nickerson wrote:
Hi Lester,
If you are after a full screen map for your website, it is very easy to create
one with a simple html page that links to Leaflet (the tool for providing pan
and zoom, etc) and the tiles server at OSM. I've attached something I was able
to get up and running quite
Hi,
On 11/30/2013 02:03 PM, Maarten Deen wrote:
Yeah. This is a bad decision. That means that non-logged in users (which
is any user that does not have an account, and that would be the
majority of the users of the map page, if it is successful) will be
bothered by this box all the time.
I
Lester
Isn't
a) the welcome box
and
b) the Learn more/About page
a -lot- better on explaining what OSM is about than anything you could
find within one click (if at all) on the old site?
I really fail to see what you believe was better about the old layout,
maybe if you could give an example?
Am 30.11.2013 16:02, schrieb Frederik Ramm:
Anyway, I think nobody will be hurt if we have a little [X] button in
the top right corner of that welcome message, which then sets a cookie
and kills the message. I'm sure someone who is bothered enough will
submit a pull request for that.
+1000
And
On 30.11.2013 14:03, Maarten Deen wrote:
So yes: this is a bad decision and I can only ask to make something
that you can close this box ASAP.
+1
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Well, I do know with the new map page change, all the changeset search feeds
are now completely broken.
For instance, this url [1] used to create a feed for the for following area
-80.54,40.358,-79.526,40.779 and let me know if there were any changesets that
in that bounding box. Now, all I
On 30/11/13 17:54, James Mast wrote:
For instance, this url [1] used to create a feed for the for following
area -80.54,40.358,-79.526,40.779 and let me know if there were any
changesets that in that bounding box. Now, all I get are the last 20
changeset in all of OSM!!! That isn't good at
Am 30/nov/2013 um 16:51 schrieb Simon Poole si...@poole.ch:
I really fail to see what you believe was better about the old layout,
maybe if you could give an example?
the wiki was linked directly. Our wiki is the principal (loosely) structured
key about osm, created by the community. Its
Simon Poole wrote:
Lester
Isn't
a) the welcome box
and
b) the Learn more/About page
a -lot- better on explaining what OSM is about than anything you could
find within one click (if at all) on the old site?
I really fail to see what you believe was better about the old layout,
maybe if you
Simon Poole wrote:
I really fail to see what you believe was better about the old layout,
maybe if you could give an example?
Just 5 examples to start with:
1) On the main osm.org site, the extra space taken up by the bar at the
top and the huge welcome area at the left distracts from the
Am 30.11.2013 20:24, schrieb SomeoneElse:
Simon Poole wrote:
I really fail to see what you believe was better about the old layout,
maybe if you could give an example?
Just 5 examples to start with:
I was not soliciting general input, just specific to Lesters complaint
(which was not
Simon Poole wrote:
As to general complaints, I don't see any way forward without making
somebody unhappy
Understood (hence my Henry Ford quote) but on that general point - can
anyone explain in what way the new site is better than the old one? I'd
love to know what I can do with the new
On 2013-11-30 20:24, SomeoneElse wrote:
I understand the reticence on behalf of many people to criticise
suggestions from the (not being directly paid to do so) developers of
the osm.org site. As a software developer myself, being asked how am
I supposed to use _that_? and being told that's
Simon Poole wrote:
I really fail to see what you believe was better about the old layout,
maybe if you could give an example?
Just 5 examples to start with:
I was not soliciting general input, just specific to Lesters complaint (which
was not about functional issues for mappers).
As to
Lester Caine wrote:
Which is why I simply ask that the old layout is made available again as that
only requires access to pages that already exist.
Silly question ... where has the 'embed' option gone?
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Am 30.11.2013 23:02, schrieb Lester Caine:
Lester Caine wrote:
Which is why I simply ask that the old layout is made available again
as that
only requires access to pages that already exist.
Silly question ... where has the 'embed' option gone?
Simon Poole wrote:
Share - HTML ?
Am 30.11.2013 23:02, schrieb Lester Caine:
Lester Caine wrote:
Which is why I simply ask that the old layout is made available again as that
only requires access to pages that already exist.
Silly question ... where has the 'embed' option gone?
Tool for
From: Lester Caine [mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk]
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 1:51 PM
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Which is why I simply ask that the old layout is made available again as
that
only requires access to pages
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