Hi, On 07/27/2016 02:36 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > The part that I can't do anything about is getting hstore activated on > the main rendering database. That's a matter of turning a switch - > osmosis, osm2pgsql, mapnik, everything is ready for it - but this > problem isn't important enough for the amount of planning, testing and > downtime that would be needed to turn it.
Who has told you that? I don't see (a) that everything is ready for it nor (b) that it would require any downtime. For example I'm running osm-carto with hstore and using views so I don't have to modify the style; but it hasn't been shown whether that would be a good approach for OSM or whether the carto style should be changed to use hstore columns directly. > Any change that > fundamental is a risk to the project It's a change that is more complicated than flicking a switch and other things might have priority, but "a risk to the project"? Really? Have you come up with that yourself or can you quote someone on that? > no issue that is important enough to justify the change will ever arise. There's quite a few people who have changes in waiting that are only possible with the hstore extension. Of course there lies a danger in that - without the excuse of "needs hstore", we might suddenly find ourselves having to cater to lots of niche requests, aka "if there's a tag to differentiate X and Y then I want to see that difference on the map!" > That leaves US users in a bit of a quandary, with only a few viable > choices: beef up openstreetmap.us <http://openstreetmap.us> to be the > public face of the project on this side of the ocean (a disaster from a > marketing perspective, to have two competing faces) I don't think so. In fact I would like to see more regional diversity in "faces", instead of everyone trying to cram their national specialities into one central mapping style. > I'm sorry if I'm prickly. I'm frustrated. I think you're just too impatient. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
