[OSM-talk] Big sponsors (was: WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data)

[Anthony]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:50 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:

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> On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Anthony wrote:
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> > OTRS?
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> huh?


Does anyone think it would be a good idea to set up OTRS for OSM?

If your question was what OTRS is, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=otrs

It's the system that Wikimedia uses for this sort of thing (providing prompt
responses to feedback issues utilizing a team of volunteers), and in my
experience they generally provide very quick responses.

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do we really have the mapping capacity (in person-hours and server
> hardware) to handle 300M people a day providing feedback?
>

No, but there's no way 300 million people a day are going to provide
feedback.  Additionally, I'd expect the company sending all that feedback at
us to provide some manpower, at least temporarily, to at least sort through
the feedback and issue responses to the simple ones.

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:58 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
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> lets say you were a very large firm and you wanted to scale OSM to that
> level, how would you do it?


Gradually.
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