[OSM-talk] OSM the mediocre alternative (was: don't like you etc.)

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Sat Apr 21 22:29:00 BST 2007


On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 20:21 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> So in a way, Steve is right, the community is the more important aspect.
> 
> On the other hand you won't attract capable programmers if the only use 
> you have for their talent is writing workarounds and fixes for problems 
> that arise from the technical simplicity of the core - the very same 
> simplicity that may attract community members. It's like sitting in a 
> ramshackle boat and saying: "Look, all the other stupid guys are still 
> on shore building their mega ships, and we're already miles out! Ha! By 
> the way, we'll need more capable seamen with buckets to get rid of the 
> water in here..."

:-)

I was making a point about people talking-not-doing. There are of course
many things to fix in the data model as we spoke about in Essen. Triple
tags (namespaces, whatever), larger objects, dropping segments... that's
all fine and I agree they need work. What I find painful is people
talking about it for 2.5 years. Jo isn't even building a megaship, she's
talking about it.

I have to remind you the core code is all sitting there in svn waiting
for features. I'm not forcing anyone to just do workarounds.

have fun,

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





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