<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Dave Stubbs <<a href="mailto:osm.list@randomjunk.co.uk">osm.list@randomjunk.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/5/2 Yann <<a href="mailto:yann.hamon@gmail.com" target="_blank">yann.hamon@gmail.com</a>>:<div class="Ih2E3d"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well, a couple of questions.<br>- Is cloudmade the same company with which SteveC tried to put advertising on openstreetmap a year ago, putting it online without asking anybody before, arguing it was because of money issue which proved wrong after a couple of weeks?<br>
- Is this flash applet going to be opensource, and made available for development to the community, or closed source, giving that company control over openstreetmap and the way data gets entered?<br><br>I've been happy using potlach so far - not sure why a new version is needed: any thread pointing this out anywhere?<br>
<br>You get the idea. Imho stevec is trying to turn osm into his commercial game *again*, and to be honest it's quite tiring. Oh right, but "openstreetmap ain t communists like wikipedia". <br></blockquote>
</div><div><br><br>Nice over-reaction there Yann.<br><br>I think Richard pointed out why a new version of Potlatch is wanted: "Potlatch is written in ActionScript 1, [...]. The latest version is ActionScript 3, [...]. CloudMade believes this is holding back the development of OSM [...]: more Flash designers would come to work on it, resulting in a better editor". Whether you believe that's true is another matter, personally I'd tend to agree to some extent, and if I was investing money in a codebase I'd want it to be as maintainable as possible, which probably means something other than AS1.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br><br>You're right, I may have slightly overreacted - sorry list, I'll remember not to post at 3 in the morning after coming from the pub :)<br>It's still very important that the API stays open imho, and that the choice is proposed when you click on the "edit" button - would be pretty close to the way the wikipedia search works <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=&go=Go">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=&go=Go</a> (choice is given between mediawiki's default search, and other proprietary searches on third party websites). <br>
<br>Yann <br></div></div><br>