[OSM-talk] The long tail

[Nick Whitelegg]

Good points Steve. I agree privacy is a concern - it's not for me personally 
(I'm sure it's of no consequence to anyone else to know that I regularly go 
walking in the Hampshire countryside at the weekends and was on Ben Nevis on 
June 25th at about four in the afternoon) but I'm sure that for others it 
could be. Actually if anything the timestamps could justify my walking 
randomly round roads in Southampton if some over zealous neighbourhood watch 
people got a bit funny... :-)

> In any case, hopefully after Saturday we'll have daily planet.osm dumps
> (with that naming convention someone specced out) which I should have
> worked harder to produce in the past. Then, we can integrate the cool
> openlayers stuff crschmidt's done in to the front page and get away from
> the flaky tiles we're serving, if NickW doesn't mind too much that we'd
> be dropping his work.

Well, I *did* put a fair amount of work into it.... :-) <g>

Seriously, though, whatever's best for the project basically. Presumably 
Chris's stuff will be checked into subversion, so that others can work on it 
if need be?
In any case, daily planet dumps will allow me to work on my own 
countryside-orientated Freemap (as in free-map.org.uk, not freemap.in... 
maybe time for a name change to avoid confusion...) renderer and keep it up 
to date.

Nick