User talk:Jeroen De Dauw/LQT Archive 1

Your edits to Extension:KML Export
Just noting that I reverted your edits to my extension page, where you added links to your extensions (Maps and Semantic Maps). I usually don't mind, but the way you did really bothered me.

You spammed many other extensions (GiX, Point-Mapping, WikiWidgets, DatabaseGoogleExtension, QuickWMS, Ricks Google Maps, GoogleMapExtension and YahooMaps) with the same links, but your extension pages don't cite any of them. You want everyone to point to you, but you won't point to anyone. Don't you think this is quite impolite?

--Juliano 16:51, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Hey,

I'm merely trying to get users to the things they are looking for. Both maps and Semantic Maps already have a list of 'see also' links, containing the things most likely to be of interest to users visiting those pages. Adding a link to every possible thing a user might be interested in is insane though, which is the reason I did not add a link to most of the other extensions (note I have linked the Google Maps extension). IMHO, it's far more likely an user will find a general mapping extension interesting when viewing an extension that targets only once service, as it is the other way around.

(Also note that some of these extensions are a few years old, don't contain any functionality Maps does not have, and don't have any active development. This makes it very unlogical to link to them, since it would prompt users to make bad choices in the extension they use.)

Maps and SM currently do not support any KML features, so it's unlikely people viewing the page will need KML Export. It is related, but to far down in the list sorted by likelihood of being of interest to the average user visiting the page. As soon as Maps supports KML features, I'll add a link though.

So no, I don't think this is impolite. I'm sorry my actions bothered you though. If you don't want the references on your extension page, then that's completely your choice.

Cheers!

--Jeroen De Dauw 17:18, 16 August 2009 (UTC)