Hi, Kevin Peat wrote: > I don't think we should drop maps completely from the front page but I think > we should show more of what is special about the project.
That's what I was thinking. Whether "the map is the data" or not - Google has a map, and it is (currently) more complete and faster than ours, it has a better search function and aerial imagery on top of that. Yes, ours has much more detail, ours is free for the taking and open to contributors, ours has a huge community behind it and has the data for anyone who cares - but none of THAT is visible at first glance. It is probably very hard to make these advantages visible at first glance, and we're not marketing or communications experts, but we ought to try. This does not mean the map has to vanish from page 1 but I'd like to highlight the bits where we are actually better than everyone else, rather than just catching up. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
