[Strategic] next issues facing Strategic

[Mikel Maron]

Apologies if I got the details wrong on what exactly happened with Mapsomatic 
and MapQuest. Perhaps someone can forward this thread and ask for their input.

Nevertheless, we the general question of how and what OSM provides resources.

 == Mikel Maron ==
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http://mapkibera.org/
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Haiti




________________________________
From: andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com>
To: Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
Cc: strategic at openstreetmap.org
Sent: Mon, November 8, 2010 4:24:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Strategic] next issues facing Strategic

On 8 November 2010 13:09, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> On 11/07/2010 06:27 AM, Mikel Maron wrote:
>>
>> * MapOSMatic will be looking for new hosting, and asked the OSMF if it
>> can be provided. I'll forward the email. They currently have hosting
>> from FSF, but it's not permanent. MQ offered hosting, but MapOSMatic was
>> not interested in commercial support.
>
> I am surprised. A project that is sexy enough to attract support of their
> own, and they decline and rather ask us (who might conceivably get funding
> from the very same people that were shunned by MapOsMatic)?

>From the other email on this topic it seems MapOSMatic was interested
in the support they received, but because the machine was a xen vm, IO
performance was too poor.  The email even says they would credit OSMF
*or* the company that provides hosting.

Cheers

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