[OSM-dev] scaling

[Dermot McNally]

On 9 January 2011 22:35, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> This was not purely a techical issue. If we were set up, technically, to
> handle something like what you're describing here, the "eternal september"
> effect would kill off the community for good.

That depends very much on how you tell the users from this major new
source to edit and on the sort of edits you solicit from them. To be
sure, if you overnight increase the rate of newbie arrival by an order
of magnitude, and if you then do as we have always done, saying
"newbies, allow me to introduce Potlatch and JOSM. Oh, and Map
Features is that way, now be sure to connect all your nodes", then
things will get a little chaotic.

But it doesn't have to be like that. Again, we don't know what kinds
of users these are and Steve's not telling, but Let us suppose they
are not hardcore map geeks, because such people are quite likely to
have found us already. A less ambitious mapper can get by with
higher-level tools. Indeed, a mapper who manipulates, say, only POIs,
you could even get by with a not-quite-live submission tool. Heresy,
of course, but hey, you could do it...

Dermot

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