On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Nic Roets <nro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Matt Amos <zerebub...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Is there a list available of APIs and services that OSM provides which >> > are >> > considered "enterprise ready"? In terms of "enterprise ready" I'd >> > expect a >> > few commitments to be made, most importantly: >> >> i don't think any of the services OSM provides are "enterprise ready". >> OSM runs these services as aids to mapping and to show what can be >> done with the data. all of the software used to run OSM services is >> free, so any enterprise needing those services can run them itself. > > Matt, my calculations show that running such services is an extremely cheap > way of improving the OSM database. Serving a query can cost as little as > 0.00001 cent. So if there is just a one percent chance that the data > underlying the query is wrong and if only 1 in 100 users actually decides to > fix the data, then the cost to fix one mistake is still less than one cent. > Compare that to the fuel cost of someone driving just one block to capture > an unnamed street.
absolutely. but you're missing the opportunity cost of using that hardware to run other services which might work better, or give new abilities. note that no-one is saying that OSM should do without a geocoding server - nominatim is that service and (to my knowledge) there are no plans to retire it. it's simply that namefinder, as a secondary, older, geocoder takes some hardware to run that could be put to better purposes. >> alternatively, a commercial service from one of the companies selling >> OSM-based services might be willing to give an "enterprise" guarantee. > > Let me just mention to Torsten that you have conflict of interest here: Your > employer is such a company. not since november - the london development team was let go due to lack of funding. for the last 9 months my employer is someone entirely unrelated to OSM. > Torsten, I think the option you would be more interested in would be to run > the software on your own servers, or to collaborate with the providers of > such services that use open source software. which is pretty much what i was saying, thanks ;-) cheers, matt _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
