On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Dave Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2008/5/2 Yann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Well, a couple of questions. > > - Is cloudmade the same company with which SteveC tried to put > > advertising on openstreetmap a year ago, putting it online without asking > > anybody before, arguing it was because of money issue which proved wrong > > after a couple of weeks? > > - Is this flash applet going to be opensource, and made available for > > development to the community, or closed source, giving that company control > > over openstreetmap and the way data gets entered? > > > > I've been happy using potlach so far - not sure why a new version is > > needed: any thread pointing this out anywhere? > > > > You get the idea. Imho stevec is trying to turn osm into his commercial > > game *again*, and to be honest it's quite tiring. Oh right, but > > "openstreetmap ain t communists like wikipedia". > > > > > Nice over-reaction there Yann. > > I think Richard pointed out why a new version of Potlatch is wanted: > "Potlatch is written in ActionScript 1, [...]. The latest version is > ActionScript 3, [...]. CloudMade believes this is holding back the > development of OSM [...]: more Flash designers would come to work on it, > resulting in a better editor". Whether you believe that's true is another > matter, personally I'd tend to agree to some extent, and if I was investing > money in a codebase I'd want it to be as maintainable as possible, which > probably means something other than AS1. > You're right, I may have slightly overreacted - sorry list, I'll remember not to post at 3 in the morning after coming from the pub :) It's still very important that the API stays open imho, and that the choice is proposed when you click on the "edit" button - would be pretty close to the way the wikipedia search works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=&go=Go (choice is given between mediawiki's default search, and other proprietary searches on third party websites). Yann
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