[OSM-talk] London Underground stations?

[Lars Aronsson]

SteveC wrote:

> So you complain it's shaky... but also complain if work happens 
> to tune it... DOUBLETHINK!

No, it's not doublethink.  It's all about communication.  It's 
about *telling* your users that you *plan* to bring things down, 
say, 48 hours or a week in advance.  What if I had planned an 
online demo for today?  That would have been completely ruined. 
Sure, any online demo could run even better next week if your 
upgrade succeeds, but the demo could also have been done with 
yesterday's system.

On the afternoon and evening of Sunday July 16, I hope to 
demonstrate the full cycle of OSM, from track collection to map 
drawing.  Could we please try to keep the servers running then?

There's another flaw that effectively stops any online demo, and 
that is the random dropout of the tile generator.  I don't want to 
show users this magic new website and suddenly it spews out white 
blank tiles instead of the new free maps.  That's a problem I want 
to work on, and I sent a bunch of questions to the dev list, that 
nobody has answered.  As a first step I want to log how often the 
tile generator is called and how often it fails.  Is that OK?

> My next talk will include a slide about trolls.

Steve, cut that crap now.  I'm not trolling.  I'm an active 
contributor who wants to help this system and project forward.
If you're in the way, I'll find a way to go around you.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se