On 07/03/12 08:16, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
On 03/07/12 04:06, Steve Bennett wrote:
Given that many people are now actively remapping, is there any
prospect of pushing back the cutover deadline?
If there really are people actively remapping and our rushing through
the license change would sabotage their work and alienate them then
yes, we should postpone for a month or two. Sadly, here in Germany
many people are of the opposite opinion and they say "let's wait until
after the license change, and then see what's missing and fix it". I
would much prefer people to remap now but it seems that remapping is
not for everyone.
The current graphs - http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/munin.html - point
steadily downwards but if you extrapolate you'll see that they are
unlikely to reach zero before autumn.
Is there any reason not
to?
...
"If we wait another month then 5% more data can be remapped" is not a
solid reason, and neither is "I'm sure Foursquare would be unhappy to
lose a few roads in the US". These reasons are especially bad because
they an be repeated month after month and thus could make the process
drag on endlessly.
I agree. Another reason not to is that the looming deadline is actually
motivating people to stop waiting for CT-undecideds to respond and do
remapping - I know it's motivating me and other people I've talked to.
Take away the deadline and you demotivate remappers, while also putting
off the contribution from the wait-and-sees as Frederik says.
I suspect that we'll see the highest rates of remapping work in the few
weeks immediately before and after the deadline. For that, we need the
deadline.
Jonathan.
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