On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 17:18, Nic Roets <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Chris Browet <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> While I'd completely agree in a business world, don't forget we are FLOSS >> developers working on software in our free time. >> >> We don't (at least I don't, and I doubt Marble has) have "a server". OSMF >> do. >> Just put a big red sticker on the wiki saying "ABSOLUTELY DO NOT USE OUR >> WEB SERVICES, SETUP YOUR OWN!", then... >> >> > Just because OSMF, KDE and all the little projects are a non-profit, does > not mean they cannot raise money. Last time OSMF raised money for hardware, > the target was reached in 2 days. > > And it makes sense to have a few central servers serving many projects. Not > only does it simplify things like applying patches and performance tuning, > but the planet diffs also has a certain amount of fixed processing to them. > All you do is form an association and pool the donations you receive. > > And we know that the service will not be swamped overnight by Google users > or some other large site. Those large commercial companies have high > standards, even for their free products. Our data is not good enough and > they will loose too many users if the site gets overloaded. > > And while this discussion has been about searching (geocoding) it also > applies to routing. For $12 a day you can rent a pretty nice server. >
Ok, now I'm in the fouth dimension.... You'd want me to spend $12 a day to provide geolocalisation for an OSM editor (if you didn't read the thread, I remind you I'm speaking of Merkaartor)!!?? I really don't understand OSM anymore... When all was needed was "Sorry, guys, we'll try to plan our servers redeployment a bit more in advance and inform you, including service closure"... I assume the position regarding Nominatim is the same, so I might as well remove support for it, as it could close anytime. Still wondering why it exists, then... - Chris -
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