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

[Tom Carden]

On 08/06/06, Erik Johansson <erjohan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/8/06, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> > Please stop trolling.
>
> Lets not create a flame war, but...
>
> This discussion is something that always happen in projects like this,
> and I know Lars has had the same thing happen in his internet
> projects. People troll because they need something, and the project
> head honchos aren't supplying that.
>
> I don't know if that gives some perspective, I think it should.
>
> It usually boils down to what you tried to solve with the dev server,
> there usually isn't anyway for newcommers to test their code. So while
> you see lots of people using the planet.osm dumps you don't see many
> people changing your ruby code, I would say that's because people can
> actually use and test the planet.osm by them selves.
>

You're not really comparing like for like there.  There is no possible
way on earth to make tinkering with the Ruby code that drives the
whole site as easy as tinkering with an XML file on your own machine.

I agree that errors with the GPX import should be sent to a list of
admins who may or may not be able to do something about it.  But that
can only happen when the machine can send email - and when it can, the
problems people are bothered about will likely go away anyhow :)

I disagree that the machine should carry on regardless if it
encounters and error with GPX processing.

I agree that Lars is sounding like a troll.  I don't agree that it's
inevitable with this kind of project.  There are lots of people on
this list (granted, many don't contribute anything like as much as
Lars does) but there are only one or two people I would call trolls.

Best,

Tom.