[OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: Newbie - queries and usability suggestions]

[Andy Robinson]

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Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Newbie - queries and usability suggestions From:  
 "Andy Robinson" <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk>
Date:    Wed, November 22, 2006 23:12
To:      "Lars Aronsson" <lars at aronsson.se>
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Lars Aronsson wrote:

> Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>
>> Such a statement needs qualification. Exactly why is it useless?
>
> Because it doesn't cover Sweden.  I cannot show off the things
> I've been working on the last 18 months.  The previous version was
useless because it was too slow.  It all reminds me of the
> performance problems Wikipedia had during its first 3 years.
>

And look at wikipedia now. Its not a race and I'm sure in another year OSM
will look very different from today. The lack of something to look at in
Sweden is regrettable but its not like this is the end of the world. Give
it a chance and I'm sure in the end the project (all of us collectively)
will deliver.


>> As for apathy and cynicism, I see none of it in evidence. I see an
enthusiastic community,
>
> Which is far smaller than it could have been.  The apathy you
> don't see is the people who only took a look at the project and
> never returned again, because it was useless in too many ways.
>

Maybe, who knows. If the project had had google like funding from the
outset then maybe we wouldn't be having this discussion. From little
acorns though...

>
> --
>   Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>   Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
>

Cheers
Andy

Andy Robinson