Re: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christopher Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 12:18:58AM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: Well I assume the client app would make a request to /api/0.5/user/token or something with noraml username+password HTTP authentication and get a token

Re: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christopher Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 12:24:35AM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Carden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the fact that it has its own API is a much bigger concern than

Re: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For most purposes AS3 probably is a better language - except for the fairly major proviso there's no open-source player even in development. As far as I'm concerned this is quite a key point, although I know that

Re: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread Dave Stubbs
2008/5/2 Yann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, a couple of questions. - Is cloudmade the same company with which SteveC tried to put advertising on openstreetmap a year ago, putting it online without asking anybody before, arguing it was because of money issue which proved wrong after a couple of

Re: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder)
Tom Hughes wrote: Sent: 02 May 2008 9:51 AM To: dev@openstreetmap.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For most purposes AS3 probably is a better language - except for the fairly

Re: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [warning - long ponderous e-mail follows!] Hi all, A fairly weighty issue concerning the future of Potlatch has arisen, and I'm completely baffled as to what to do - so I thought I'd ask the community for thoughts

Re: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 08:35:06AM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: To summarise I think we both want the same thing, but you perhaps think somebody should just sit down and bang an AMF version of the current XML API and I'm happy with trying to incrementally move towards that position? Well, I don't

Re: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christopher Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 08:35:06AM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: To summarise I think we both want the same thing, but you perhaps think somebody should just sit down and bang an AMF version of the current XML API

Re: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread SteveC
Richard I'm sorry you think informal private chats are now in the public domain, I'll keep it in mind. All This is not quite what happened. For a start, this doesn't really have anything to do with CloudMade, it started a long time before that. It's about the maintainability and quality

Re: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 12:27:38PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: I won't pretend that I know nearly as much about the rails code as you do, but it seems like some of these would be better abstracted out. If that were the case -- that is, that all the Rails code on the site used the same

Re: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveC wrote: Also to broaden the debate a bit - one area potlatch can improve a lot, and something we want to help, is editing existing data. Go to a random area of the US and try using Potlatch to improve TIGER data, especially in non-street-grid areas. You'll quickly figure out some

Re: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread Christopher Schmidt
(My response here is developer-oriented; sent only to dev, and not to talk.) On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 03:37:57PM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: The other one is that it would be good if the getway call, in particular, could exist in _both_ SQL and Rails forms in the code, with a switch

Re: [OSM-dev] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread Dave Stubbs
-- AS1 / AS3 Dave - I think your definition of donkey balls might be different to mine. ;) Or rather, when you've been sucking horse balls for several years then donkey balls don't seem very different. Er, I should probably rephrase that. Yeah, I don't think the relative merits of various

Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] The future of Potlatch

2008-05-02 Thread bvh
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 03:37:57PM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: The other one is that it would be good if the getway call, in Just curious : what does this call actually do in fact? cu bart ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-dev] Advice sought on polygon-with-hole drawing

2008-05-02 Thread Stefan Keller
Frederik and all, Is there now a distinct description on the OSM Wiki, how polygons are defined in OSM? (e.g. self-intersections allowed? inner holes?) And: Outer boundaries seem to be encoded simply by the fact that first and last point have the same coordinates(?). But how are inner boundaries

[OSM-dev] dev server down?

2008-05-02 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Not sure if anyone's aware but the dev server appears to have been down (can't access via http or ssh) all day Friday. Nick ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev

Re: [OSM-dev] dev server down?

2008-05-02 Thread Grant Slater
Not sure if anyone's aware but the dev server appears to have been down (can't access via http or ssh) all day Friday. Yes are aware. I am going first thing in the morning to fix. Regards Grant ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org