[OSM-dev] API/XAPI caching proxy server

[Frederik Ramm]

Peter,

>> Our problem is money which osm could provide.

> Above you wrote you had 'Manpower as well as money'. What do you need 
> even more money for?

He used "we=osm" in one part of his message and "we=student group" in 
the other part.

The student group has manpower and no money, and OSM, he believes, has 
money.

I think there are two issues mixed up here. If OSM can spend money to 
make it easier for developers to try out new things, build cool 
OSM-related projects, get more people to invest their brainpower in OSM 
even if they don't have huge servers at their disposal - that's great 
and we should make every effort to support that ("if possible"). OSMF 
operates a well-equipped dev server and several national OSM communities 
have set up their own dev servers.

This doesn't mean however that we should necessarily deploy a lot of 
resources to "production" services for the end users. It's the eternal 
discussion but personally I'm fine with Mapquest doing routing or search 
on OSM data if their terms are sufficiently open (as I believe they are) 
- why do we need to use our resources for that then?

Bye
Frederik


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