[OSM-talk] London Underground stations?

[SteveC]

* @ 04/07/06 01:29:22 AM lars at aronsson.se wrote:
> 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, 

I had some time unexpectedly yesterday to work on it. If you send me
shitty negtive emails after I gave up my time to work on it, questioning
my entire motivation how do you expect me to respond? Usually I've given
advance warning.

> 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.

So are lots of people, but I don't get your kind of emails from them.

Anyway I've just discovered another bug that's the reason it's slow and
not serving data so I'll have to fix that.

have fun,

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