[Openstreetmap] no dots

[SteveC]

* @ 06/02/06 10:43:24 PM lars at aronsson.se wrote:
> Hooray, the satellite background images are back!  And the 
> response time is very good this afternoon.  Sadly, the roads are 
> only rarely drawn and quite randomly.  And when they are drawn, 
> they are of the new narrow and ugly kind.
>
> In the edit applet, white backgrounds and roads are displayed, and 
> quite fast at that, but no satellite background images (never 
> mind) and worst of all: no dots!

Quick reality check: OSM has 1200 users, approximately one programmer,
approximately no money and approximately one computer lent by
free-map.org.uk.

Under these circumstances I think we're doing better than could be
expected, but as we all know there is a long way to go and we can do a
lot better. Most of our problems stem from our massive increase in users
which is really a *good* thing.

As I said I'm getting hosting and an organisation together but it
takes time, please be patient, I'll have news soon.

> What's up?  

Mikel set up some things before the oneearth went down and a bug came to
light when it came back.

> Can I help?

Our data contributor / programmer ratio is not great so if something
breaks 1200 people can't do any work but only one (ish) person can fix
it.

Until I have some concrete things to say (soon!), ask ten of your best
programmer friends to fix a bug in OSM.

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/