[OSM-talk] OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

[Kate Chapman]

Hi Erik, HOT has been teaching OSM all over Indonesia for the past 6
months.  I can say that the uploads aren't that slow, since people are
usually mapping in a small area.  Loading of the OSM website though is
often very slow, which in a class of new people sometimes makes it
difficult just to get them accounts.

Frans, there have been other projects working with highschool students
to map in OSM.  The problems and mistakes made can be cleaned up by
the community and there are tools that the teacher could use to
monitor who is doing what.  Since there is a user account associated
with each student you could even associate their edits with a grade if
you wanted to.

Best,

-Kate

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Erik Johansson <emj at kth.se> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 23:02, Frans Thamura <frans at meruvian.org> wrote:
>> last month, all our server move to the heart of the IIX, so all people
>> will access faster because only 1 hop from ISPs .
>
> I understand that it will be faster to reach the server, that makes it
> perfect for local tile server and planet extracts mirror, but I don't
> see any technical/economical reasons for a local copy of the API for
> uploading changesets.. Uploads of changesets to an unloaded API server
> might be faster, but edit conflicts are going to drive you insane, so
> unless it's 10x faster and 10x cheaper to use a local upload server
> then don't do it.
>
> Is it really slow to upload changesets from Indonesia?
>
> --
> /emj
>
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