[Openstreetmap-dev] ticket 134

[Lars Aronsson]

Mikel Maron wrote:

> I may be misinterpreting, but I really don't appreciate the tone 
> of your email. There is no place for patronization here.

I'm sorry for that.  I'm not here to make enemies, I'm here to 
make free maps.  Not having been able to do this for two weeks 
makes me frustrated, but I should know to use my energy more 
constructively.  I do appreciate your work on the software.

> I have gone from thinking to knowing (and to doing), and have 
> run tests on Ruby tile generation. I've mentioned this several 
> times in several emails. It would be helpful if I had published 
> the results of these tests, but I simply don't have the time or 
> inclination to go back into it. I'm convinced Ruby is not the 
> correct choice for tile generation,

I have absolutely zero experience of Ruby, which is one reason for 
my staying out of software development here.  My assumption is 
that Ruby is just as fine as Perl, Python or PHP, and that any 
language is fine as long as the programmers like it.  Steve seems 
to like Ruby, and so do many other smart people, which makes me 
doubt that there could be anything fundamentally wrong with it.  
My own background is in C, C++, Java, and Perl, so I wouldn't mind 
a migration to Perl.  But I think you would need pretty hard 
evidence to (convince Steve to) abandon Ruby.

> I added a "rescue" to osmlog.rb, the errors stopped, and tiles 
> are now generating more consistently. Checked osmlog.rb in svn, 
> and Steve had made the same change a few days ago but hadn't yet 
> pushed it out. I don't know what the problem is with this 
> logging, but now streets are appearing on new tiles. In 48 hours 
> things should be looking better across the map.

Thank YOU!  You may now sign off ticket 134 as solved.

(It was the software, not the hardware.  It always is.)

Now I can go back to editing maps and recruiting more people to 
view and contribute to OSM.  This bugfix makes all the difference.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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