On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Fellow OSMers, > > I'd like to use the calm end-of-year season to say a few things I > consider important, hoping that I might get a few people to spend a > thought or two on them.
Here's my top issues I'd love to see resolved. Some of these I'm even working on (though not as much as I'd like to). 1. A more split-database I'd love to see a completely shardable solution one day, but if we took some small steps today with the database, we could get really far. Spitting out just a few tables would improve our main areas of contention, thereby increasing speed. And that would already handle some of the "sharding" type issues w/o needing a major technology change. 2. A cachable API We have some technical solutions caching tiles, but the API is largely not cachable. There are some modest changes (I'm writing up a proposal, and there are others) that would make the API cachable. A cacheable API might be a nice step in the direction of a distributed database w/o needing to refactor major parts of the infrastructure. 3. More communication inside OSM We've had proposal and sample code for changeset comments/voting. I think this kind of thing is really important as the project grows. 4. More focused activity at OSM events PyCon has a full week of developer sprints. It uses the money from the conference to pay for cheaper facilities (often in the same hotel) for developers to work on various projects. I think OSMF could do the same, with either developer or other focused events at SOTM. Examples would be working on the rails port, on new API features, but also new tilesets, or something else that simply needs a bunch of people and time. 4. More direction from OSMF I'd love to see OSMF do more projects like the design contest. I don't like how the design contest went about being set up, but I like the sentiment and want to see more of OSMF taking a stewardship role, providing direction. 5. Support for geographic data other than GPX tracks. We support GPX tracks. I'd love if OSM could also support usage of other resources, be them shapefiles that are cleared or geotagged images. But hey that's just me, but it all seems entirely reasonable for 2012. :) - Serge _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
