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

[Erik Johansson]

On 6/8/06, Tom Carden <tom at tom-carden.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Well my point was that it's hellish to use the test env for the ruby scripts.


> 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 :)

But the there is no such list of admins, is there, will there ever be?
And who will fix the problems, Steve? We are back at the problem that
Lars pointed out, if Steve says he hasn't got time to solve it how
will it be solved.


> There are lots of people on
> this list but there are only one or two people I would call trolls.

Now emails isn't the best way to express emotions. So I hope you feel
the same way as I do that everyone that have uttered something on this
list has been pretty nice.


> I don't agree that it's inevitable with this kind of project.

In the spirit of what Cato did with  "Cartaghinem delendam est", I'm
going to end this mail with in a less eloquent way; yes they do..

Have fun doing stuff.
/emj