On 17 Jun 2009, at 18:17, Joe Richards wrote:

One of the main annoyances that people tell me that they have with OSM
is that whenever they visit the site, the map shows them just the UK.
I checked it (from other random computers, not my laptop) when I was in Thailand and Australia and it always showed the UK. Is the UK the default if IP resolution fails?


It will default to the following if nothing else works (from url, cookie, user home location, session cookie, and GeoIP)
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.1&lon=-0.1&zoom=5

The code of the algorithm is at
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/rails_port/app/views/site/index.html.erb#L55

Shaun

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