> > > > Now, name search on 0.16.x which is going to be included in the > > newest Fedora and Debian won't work :-( > > Have you tried to contact upstream about this? This sounds like > something that they'd be willing to patch even in a stable > release. It's a very important feature (in a relatively > unimportant[1]. program) that won't work *at all*. Aren't they willing > to patch that? >
They are very nice people, and I'm sure they would do all they can to sneak a patch in, but I'm not keen myself in rushing a point release... > > > 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)!!?? > > What sort of crazy hosting costs $360 per month (asking Nic Roets)? I > bet you could host basic redirection services on a 512 Linode for > $20/month. Possibly even a whole nominatim instance (I don't know its > resource demands). > > Anyway, just pointing the service to your own domain costs next to > Err, yes, it would be cheap. But managing/supporting/updating the service behind it is totally out of scope of Merkaartor. > nothing. And that seems like a very basic precaution that programs > like Merkaartor should take so they can deal with cases like these. > I won't discuss this any further, but I still think it is nonsense in the context of an OSM editor like Merkaartor. Pushing the reasoning, I could as well have my own copy of the OSM database and push data patches to the main database... Mmm... Now that I think about it, it would actually be the thing to do in the context of the "OSM is all about data" concept, but it is hardly practical, resource-wise. Regards - Chris -
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