[OSM-dev] Deriving Change Sets

[Steve Coast]

On 1 Jul 2007, at 06:20, Brett Henderson wrote:

> Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> This is something I would really love to see get off the ground. (I
>> remember an evening at the Essen meeting where I complained about the
>> weekly dump, and Nick Black said something like "well we could do it
>> daily", and I said "daily is not enough", and he went "well one could
>> do hourly with proper equiment" and I said "dumps, dumps, dumps, I
>> don't want no stupid dumps, I want live data..." - a discussion  
>> ensued
>> about what you'd possibly need live data for, but until today I
>> maintain that we should just provide data as live as possible without
>> asking what people want to use it for.)

That's not quite how I remember it. I think the discussion wasn't as  
productive as it could be as Nick and I were thinking in terms of  
practical considerations with todays hardware. How frequent can we  
make the data available today? Well, that's planet.osm. You were and  
are thinking about an ideal situation like having the whole world  
live right now. Which is fine, it's just not something we were  
contemplating.

> Rather than try to convince people with words that this is a good  
> idea,
> I'm trying to prove it with some working code.

I love you and I want to have your children :-)

have fun,

SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/


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