[OSM-talk] Re: [OSM-dev] MassGIS dataset

[SteveC]

* @ 04/06/06 11:01:11 PM lars at aronsson.se wrote:
> Steve is an artist and needs a manager to help him keep time and 

Today is the 5th June. Over the past month I have, in reverse order

* spent over 4 days at reboot, a big conference in copenhagen where I
spoke about OSM (podcast on opengeodata.org). Out of my own money and
time, during the week.

* Spent one evening at the British Computer Society Open Source Special
Interest Group where I met a bunch of people, I'm also going to speak at
an event for them in a few months. I met glynn moody who wrote 'rebel
code' and blogged a nice article about OSM and a bunch of other people.
Out of my own time and money.

* Spent an evening at the BCS geospatial SIG where ed parsons spoke.

* moved house, which involved losing inet access, moving and buying lots
of furniture. This took 3 days and only just got inet back.

* Spent over 4 days at XTECH, a big conference in Amsterdam where I
spoke about OSM and met many people including people from platial,
O'Reilly and so on. This again was out of my own time and money and
during the week. This like reboot generated much publicity and some
offers of support to be worked out.

* Mapchester, where I went up to manchester for 2 days and helped out
with gps units, uploading data and so on. This forged links with
manchester university, the MDDA and futuresonic.

* The Isle of Wight workshop for 4 days and lots of organisation with
help from some key people like dmgrrom, which needs no explanation, as
if any of this does.

* Spent time getting the OSMF off the ground, getting Matt to do the
voting system, fixing bugs, applying patches to random things like the
applet and freethepostcode... and just before the IoW we moved all the
servers.

If you disagree with the way I've spent my time then that's fair enough,
you're welcome to start your own project. I think I've been trying to
address my own lack of time with the OSMF and distributing responsibilty.


Now, why has the GPX queue died? It's a feature. If a GPX fails then it
doesn't remove a file lock and the subsequent insert cron jobs also fail
in case there's something seriously wrong. Cron mails me what the
problem is and in the past it caught things like incorrect time stamp
parsing. The servers are currently not hooked up to send me an email
because our host doesn't let just anyone send to port 25. So I don't get
the fail messages.

So each time over the past week or so I've just restarted it (removed
the lock) rather than have the time to try and fix it, because of all of
the above.


Now, why isn't there a June planet.osm? Because as Tom noted I got back
very late last night after being at reboot. As others will verify,
internet access was not good there. So I started a dump today but ran
out of memory and so I started rewriting the dump script to print XML
rather than create a DOM and then print but my girlfriend, having not
seen much of me due to all the above, wanted to go out.


So there it is, and now I have 3 days before I'm off to Where 2.0, I've
spent a ton of time and money on OSM and its promotion and distribution
of authority, I'm off to the US and have to figure how to pay my rent.

But I still love it.

have fun,

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