[OSM-talk] db and user statistics update

[Andy Robinson]

Marcus Bauer [mailto:marcus.bauer at gmail.com] wrote:
>Sent: 16 January 2007 3:16 PM
>To: Andy Robinson
>Cc: 'OSM'
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] db and user statistics update
>
>On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 12:20 +0000, Andy Robinson wrote:
>
>> 1. There has been no increase in the trendline for number of registered
>> users. [] Ideas on how we might draw in new users would be good.
>
>Writing some good article and getting it on slashdot, digg, del.ici.ous,
>lwn, OSNews etc.
>
>Things that would be helpful for promotion:
>
>A slippy map that:
>
>      * survives slashdot (seriously, why not?)
>      * shows the current state of the data, without need to switch
>        between mapnik and osmarender when zooming in. Thus either
>        having Mapnik with recent data or osmarender by default and with
>        something visible from zoom 0-12, better than the very faint
>        maps.
>
>I have already started writing an article but it would be helpful if the
>slippy map would be enduser-friendly before publishing it.
>
>
>> 5. For those that missed the dropping of the TIGER data, this results in
>a
>> huge drop in the size of the Planet file (which only contains live data).
>
>I'm wondering what the current state of the re-import is? The last
>message I found about this subject dates from November, being Bill
>asking to dump the TIGER data in order to remove duplicates:
>
>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2006-November/002564.html
>
>Can somebody tell what the current state of the project is?
>

AFAIK it's on hold pending an improved import method that reuses the nodes
which are common at junctions.

Cheers

Andy


>Marcus
>