It's just the Brits trying to re-establish their imperial dominance over the world.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Shaun McDonald <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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