[OSM-dev] Deriving Change Sets

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> That's not quite how I remember it. I think the discussion wasn't as 
> productive as it could be

Many things about Essen weren't as productive as they could have been. 
But the barbecue was ok.

> as Nick and I were thinking in terms of 
> practical considerations with todays hardware. 

Sure, and you weren't the only ones. Nothing to say against that, but 
your thinking seemed to be: "better hardware -> higher dump frequency", 
while I was - very un-practical and as a matter of principle - saying 
that we should not aim at providing higher-frequency dumps but at 
providing live data.

I was talking about aims, you were talking about possibilities.

It seems to be a similar thing we see with the fundraising question 
today. I would like to have something to aim at ("we want such and such 
a budget to finance the following hardware / events / whatever, now 
let's go find sponsors") while your method seems to be "let's raise all 
the money we can and then use it for something good". Which is surely 
more practical, because high-flying plans aren't any good if you cannot 
finance them.

But hey - I am impractical. Or, euphemistically, I am a visionary. If I 
weren't, then I would be managing a large company instead of spending my 
time with something that sounds cool.

Bye
Frederik

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