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

2010-06-18 Thread SteveC
On Jun 17, 2010, at 11:34 PM, Anthony wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:54 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: OTRS is a horrible system, whereas uservoice is easypeasy. From whose perspective? Send an email, wait 3 minutes and 42 seconds, receive a response that your issue has been

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

2010-06-17 Thread SteveC
I think you're concentrating on tiles, but that's not really the bottleneck I would jump on first. The conversation goes like this: steve we have 300 million people a day look at our site and we would like to send their edits and feedback to OSM Really it's the API we're talking about. Tiles

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

2010-06-17 Thread SteveC
Well let me take that back a bit - actually even doing some very simple cleanup of the interface and having a feedback mechanism *at all* would be a good first step, as people jumped on my recent OGD post in the comments: http://opengeodata.org/the-importance-of-timing-to-feedback On

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

2010-06-17 Thread Anthony
OTRS? On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:30 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Well let me take that back a bit - actually even doing some very simple cleanup of the interface and having a feedback mechanism *at all* would be a good first step, as people jumped on my recent OGD post in the comments:

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

2010-06-17 Thread SteveC
On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Anthony wrote: OTRS? huh? On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:30 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Well let me take that back a bit - actually even doing some very simple cleanup of the interface and having a feedback mechanism *at all* would be a good first

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

2010-06-17 Thread Ian Dees
Do we really have the mapping capacity (in person-hours and server hardware) to handle 300M people a day providing feedback? I mean we could point people to openstreetbugs, but it's already full up because people are more interested in mapping the areas they are interested in, not necessarily

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

2010-06-17 Thread Ian Dees
OTRS = http://otrs.org/ (Open Source Ticket Request System) On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:50 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Anthony wrote: OTRS? huh? On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:30 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Well let me take that back a bit -

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

2010-06-17 Thread SteveC
On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:55 PM, Ian Dees wrote: Do we really have the mapping capacity (in person-hours and server hardware) to handle 300M people a day providing feedback? that's kind of the point lets say you were a very large firm and you wanted to scale OSM to that level, how would you do

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

2010-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 June 2010 11:58, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: But the sad thing is it applies for much lower numbers too - if you wanted to scale to 1 million / day editors let's say. I'm wondering if bulk uploaders are already hitting these kinds of numbers, lets assume the bulk unloaders all went

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

2010-06-17 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:50 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Anthony wrote: OTRS? 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

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

2010-06-17 Thread SteveC
I think we can do better http://customer.otrs.org/otrs/customer.pl is a horrible interface. I'd like something that works like uservoice.com but is integrated in to the rails port (because tom says so). I actually think we should go with uservoice.com, it's all set up and would take 5

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

2010-06-17 Thread SteveC
On Jun 17, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Anthony wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:50 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Anthony wrote: OTRS? huh? Does anyone think it would be a good idea to set up OTRS for OSM? If your question was what OTRS is,

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

2010-06-17 Thread SteveC
On Jun 17, 2010, at 8:12 PM, John Smith wrote: On 18 June 2010 11:58, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: But the sad thing is it applies for much lower numbers too - if you wanted to scale to 1 million / day editors let's say. I'm wondering if bulk uploaders are already hitting these kinds

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

2010-06-17 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:31 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I think we can do better Well then, feel free. On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:32 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Anthony wrote: I'd expect the company sending all that feedback at us to

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

2010-06-17 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:31 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I think we can do better http://customer.otrs.org/otrs/customer.pl is a horrible interface. I'd like something that works like uservoice.combut is integrated in to the rails port (because tom says so). I actually

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

2010-06-17 Thread Ben Last
Just to chime in on the topic... On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:18 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: To paraphrase (not specifically Wolfram, but the unnamed other megacorps you're chatting with): 1. they'd like to link to us directly but our infrastrucutre is too weak; 2. they would not want to give us a

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

2010-06-17 Thread SteveC
On Jun 17, 2010, at 8:50 PM, Anthony wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:31 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I think we can do better Well then, feel free. that's a valid point but a nauseatingly pithy one when overused in response to simple comments. Yeah that's Fredericks point:

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

2010-06-17 Thread SteveC
On Jun 17, 2010, at 9:08 PM, Ian Dees wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:31 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I think we can do better http://customer.otrs.org/otrs/customer.pl is a horrible interface. I'd like something that works like uservoice.com but is integrated in to

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

2010-06-17 Thread SteveC
On Jun 17, 2010, at 9:22 PM, Ben Last wrote: Just to chime in on the topic... On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:18 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: To paraphrase (not specifically Wolfram, but the unnamed other megacorps you're chatting with): 1. they'd like to link to us directly but our infrastrucutre

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

2010-06-17 Thread Ben Last
On 18 June 2010 11:49, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: That's super interesting though - can you give a deep feel for what the volume and content of those emails is? Generally hey, my street's not in the right suburb, or hey, why isn't my street shown?, or How come your address search

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

2010-06-17 Thread SteveC
On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:11 PM, Ben Last wrote: On 18 June 2010 11:49, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: That's super interesting though - can you give a deep feel for what the volume and content of those emails is? Generally hey, my street's not in the right suburb well at least this one

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

2010-06-17 Thread Ben Last
On 18 June 2010 12:19, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:11 PM, Ben Last wrote: Generally hey, my street's not in the right suburb well at least this one is what I want to capture, super simply, and have a queue to be fixed. Right now we don't capture it _at all_ and

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

2010-06-17 Thread SteveC
On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Ben Last wrote: On 18 June 2010 12:19, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:11 PM, Ben Last wrote: Generally hey, my street's not in the right suburb well at least this one is what I want to capture, super simply, and have a queue to be

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

2010-06-17 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:46 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: that's a matter of opinion, any reasonable person I've ever met would prefer uservoice to trac or otrs or whatever. For what? From a glance at the two, OTRS and uservoice don't even seem to be in the same category. The two

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

2010-06-17 Thread SteveC
On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:36 PM, Anthony wrote: Anyway, if your point in this thread is just defending yourself against what you see as an attack from Frederick, feel free to ignore this. But if you'd like some ideas on how to create a system to allow OSM users to easily get feedback quickly

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

2010-06-17 Thread Ben Last
On 18 June 2010 12:32, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Ben Last wrote: Well, fixing it isn't trivial, since there may be a bunch of reasons why it's wrong (or it may not actually be wrong!). We could store these and forward to OSM, but as has been mentioned,

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

2010-06-17 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:40 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:36 PM, Anthony wrote: Anyway, if your point in this thread is just defending yourself against what you see as an attack from Frederick, feel free to ignore this. But if you'd like some ideas on how to

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

2010-06-17 Thread SteveC
On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Ben Last wrote: On 18 June 2010 12:32, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Ben Last wrote: Well, fixing it isn't trivial, since there may be a bunch of reasons why it's wrong (or it may not actually be wrong!). We could store these

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

2010-06-17 Thread SteveC
On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Anthony wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:40 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:36 PM, Anthony wrote: Anyway, if your point in this thread is just defending yourself against what you see as an attack from Frederick, feel free to

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

2010-06-17 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:54 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: OTRS is a horrible system, whereas uservoice is easypeasy. From whose perspective? Send an email, wait 3 minutes and 42 seconds, receive a response that your issue has been resolved and thanking you for your report. That's my