Tom MacWright wrote:
John Firebaugh just wrote up a post that's useful in light of the conversations
we've been having about changes to OSM and how they're organized:
http://www.mapbox.com/osmdev/2013/07/19/implementing-osm-vision/
Hopefully this story from the video to wireframes, to thought, and finally to
the actual code and pull requests we're working on, will help to clarify what
we[1]'re interested in working on and why.
I'd like to refresh a suggestion that I made which I think may have got lost in
the discussions. The current top level debate is - I think - should a map be the
'initial point of contact'. I'm coming down nowadays on that answer being 'no'
since promoting a SINGLE view of the project data does now seem wrong? There are
perhaps more views out there than we realise, and so promoting diversity seems
rather appropriate. The original thought that I suggested was moving the map to
map.openstreetmap.org and I'd enhance that with transport.xx and perhaps even
foot.xx so that a number of default views are available.
Then the main front page concentrates on providing better links to the diverse
range of uses, and more important, better linking through to 'local groups' and
local translated views of the data? Personally I only need an English view of
the map, but I am concious how difficult it is to navigate to even well
supported forks such as the French and German views. Finding other languages is
currently not supported at all well, and that would link in with promoting data
capture beyond the 'English speaking' core?
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