2009/6/17 Eric Wolf <[email protected]>: > 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 >>
Maybe http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0&lon=-0&zoom=2 would be more diplomatic, but then we should be using a map that did not make the Uk, India, Brazil and New Zealand all the same size. We should at least have the option of which projection is used, maybe some kind of menu. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection Peter _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
