Pros: - the "layers" tab is smaller vertically. It could be even better by taking off the other maps samples which are unnecessarily overloading the other tiles servers each time someone opens this tab. - looks more "modern"
Cons: - text attributs for the top menus. Fonts are very thin and colours very light, almost transparent. This will be a problem when the site is used in bad conditions (outdoor, sun, small devices) or by visual impaired. - you have two links ("About" and "Learn More") jumping to the same page. In general: - I fully agree that the link to the documentation and licence are essential to the main page. It is not just "yet another slippy map with different styles". We have to figure out that the licence terms are explained in the small map link "© OpenStreetMap contributors" or through the "About" page. How can we explain that the major difference between OSM and Google Maps is its licence (e.g. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Map_Maker) ? - in the past, one part of the community said that the slippy map and its default style should be less prominent or even hidden somewhere behind the front page because OSM is mainly a database, not a slippy map project and what is shown is just partial or may lead to "tag for the renderers". I did not agree on that. I found the previous situation where the map was on the main page but no so prominent was a good compromise, especially when we see this page as a call for new contributors. But now this trend to put the default slippy map (which is far from perfect) as the major feature of the project is imho a mistake. Improve a bit the default rendered style, add a routing feature and the home page will be the open version of Google Maps services. Is it the final goal of the website ? - the "About" first sentence is very urban-centric : "OSM is built by a community of local mappers that keeps data about roads, cafés, subway stations, and much more up to date every day. ". First, many areas in OSM are just empty. It's even not the question to "keep data up-to-date" like it is in most of the urban cities in OSM but just "create data". Second, I'm happy to see that our first example for maintaining data up-to-date are for roads, cafés and ... subway stations. - the "community driven" section is talking about "engineers" and HOT team but the average contributor, you know the one who is not an engineer neither a remote armchair mapper in Africa or Asia, is not mentionned even though it is the main part of the community. Pieren _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk