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Enhancement: Find space somewhere on the "export" screen to tell people that "share" exists

Open SomeoneElseOSM opened this issue 12 years ago • 1 comments

Since the new layer switcher appeared in the summer, quite possible the most frequently asked duplicate questions on the help site are variations on this one:

https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/28978/export-on-osmorg-offers-no-more-pdf-or-svg-file-export-in-the-new-webinterface-2013-12

Perhaps space could be found on the "export" sidebar to alert people to the existence of the "share" button on the layer switcher - perhaps something like "Want a different format? Try the share button at the right-hand side of the screen".

SomeoneElseOSM avatar Dec 10 '13 23:12 SomeoneElseOSM

We could mitigate this confusion by adding a big arrow pointing to the right (and presumably the reverse in the Share panel), but it seems kind of desperate. #6575 proposes to merge the two panels together so the site’s left hand doesn’t go “talk to the (right) hand”.

1ec5 avatar Dec 01 '25 19:12 1ec5