Kai just showed me your demo running on dev, which is great - sorry I missed that. The data looks pretty up-to-date, is it being updated weekly or more often? Is it world-wide?
Cheers, Matt On Sep 4, 2010 6:55 PM, "Matt Amos" <[email protected]> wrote: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Nic Roets <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:20 P... are you saying that kernel.org can be unfriendly because the amount of effort put in by each contributor is higher? i don't think that's the right way to look at it - kernel.org doesn't need to showcase the capabilities of linux because there are many other providers and distributions doing this. the people who are using linux, for example on an android phone, don't need to know about kernel.org, and don't need to care. the people who are using ubuntu don't need to know about kernel.org, since ubuntu provides almost all of their needs. in my opinion it can be the same with osm.org - people can be using the data (for example, on bing, mapquest or cloudmade) without ever needing to see the osm.org site. those who are interested enough to want to contribute can do it directly through the provider, or be directed to osm.org. > So we need to make the environment as > friendly as possible. i wouldn't disagree with you there, and providing routing on the main page might make the experience slightly nicer, but it comes with a cost to OSM in terms of developing, integrating and running the service which is non-zero. anyone who's interested in getting a service on the front page has to make it as friendly as possible, not just to the users, but also to the admins. my suggestion for getting anything integrated with the main site is to set up a patched rails port* and your running service on dev.osm.org, announce it and keep it up to date for a while. when people have been using it, and it's clear that it's stable and what computational and admin requirements it has, it has a much higher chance of being integrated into the main page. cheers, matt * it has to be a rails port and not a static page. either integrating it into rails port is easy (in which case you can do it - it's easy) or it's hard (in which case there's a big barrier to getting it adopted, so you should do it to make it easier to integrate).
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