<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 15:54, Jonathan Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:openstreetmap@jonno.cix.co.uk">openstreetmap@jonno.cix.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On 01/09/2010 22:33, Chris Browet wrote:<br>
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For myself:<br>
- Considering the reactions, maybe avoid as much as possible to use <a href="http://openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">openstreetmap.org</a> <<a href="http://openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">http://openstreetmap.org</a>> services, but anyway be sure it fails gracefully.<br>
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Chris,<br>
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If you're talking in your role as a maintainer of Merkaartor, then the fails gracefully bit is a good idea, but you don't need to avoid using the services. Mappers editing the data are the intended audience for the services on <a href="http://openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">openstreetmap.org</a>, so Merkaartor is meant to be using them.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for confirming this. However, the original problem is the same, be it Merkaartor or a "third-party". If the OSM services can disappear in a snap, it's no real fun for me to develop support for it nor for the end-users to be confronted to an non-working functionality...</div>
<div><br></div><div>But If everyone agrees that an announcement of ~3 months should be foresee before a service termination (time to fix and deploy a new version, and some time for the new version to propagate), it's OK for me.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Chris -</div><div>- Chris -</div></div>