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

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 11:29:00PM +0200, SteveC wrote:
> 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 would like to point out, for the record, that Jo participated in
creating the Mapserver+ka-Map based demos built on the original April
and July planet dumps, as well as prototyping an in-browser attribute
editing cilent (the core of which is now what is integrated into
labs.metacarta.com/osm/). 

Part of this effort included evaluation of the folksonomic ontology that
OSM had built at the time, and working to build improved styling for the
dynamically generated maps that we built.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta