On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 19:38, Grant Slater <openstreet...@firefishy.com>wrote:
> On 1 September 2010 15:14, Chris Browet <c...@semperpax.com> 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... > > - Chris - > > Lets calm down a little. :-) > > There are 3 reasons why I called for the short notice of shutdown: > > 1) gazetteer's data hasn't been updated for over 2 years. Internally > it has been considered to be deprecated. Likely we should have > announced this earlier. Oh well. > 2) When I checked the usage recently it was extremely low. I wasn't > aware Marble used gazetteer. Marble does not provide a User-Agent when > querying gazetteer. If it had, I would have been less eager. > 3) We have other services that are waiting for hardware. > > Mistakes have been made... now lets move on. > > I'm going to have a hack at creating a namefinder/gazetteer -> > nominatim bridge script. > > Now, that's a positive attitude :-) Indeed, let's move on and learn our lessons... For myself: - Be sure to monitor the dev list more closely; - Considering the reactions, maybe avoid as much as possible to use openstreetmap.org services, but anyway be sure it fails gracefully. - Chris -
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