This is awesome.
I've reposted it here, after tracking down URLs for each of the stories and
comments you mention:
http://mike.teczno.com/notes/nice-problem.html
-mike.
On Mar 8, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> * 3500 tiles per second. Seriously. In Grant's words on Twitter: "Massive
> jump in #OpenStreetMap traffic due 2 Apple news: t.co/nB4ffgYy Fighting fires
> 2 keep systems up"
>
> * switch2osm.org fell over. Yep, so many people wanting to find out about
> switching to OpenStreetMap that WordPress crapped itself (ok, not the hardest
> target but hey ;) ).
>
> * More contributors. We've had people come into IRC saying "I want to fix
> this park name, how do I do it?". Regular IRCers have been reporting a
> noticeably greater number of new editors in their areas. Or as someone just
> asked on IRC: "hmm did the apple fanbois drink the OSM koolaid and crash our
> servers with zealous mapping?"
>
> * I think we've had a higher peak of publicity today than we've ever had -
> higher than the Foursquare switch even, or the Google vandalism incident.
> We've been Slashdotted; we're #6 on Hacker News. We've been on The Verge,
> Forbes, Wired, Ars, Gizmodo, and all the Mac sites - that's taking OSM to
> people who've not heard of us before. We might not be the front page of the
> New York Times yet, but we're getting there!
>
> * And one of the best things has been that people like how we've handled it.
> From Forbes: "OpenStreetMap itself has been much more polite about the whole
> thing. 'It’s really positive for us,' OSM founder Steve Coast told Talking
> Points Memo, 'It’s great to see more people in the industry using OSM. We do
> have concerns that there wasn’t attribution.'."
> From a comment at Hacker News: "While I think it's quite messed up that a
> company as rich as Apple can't abide putting credits for people who have put
> some really good work in (I've even made small updates to OSM in my time) I
> do think that this is a very classy move by the OSM people, no ranting blog
> post or 'Apple stole our stuff', welcoming people presents a much better
> image of the project."
> Or The Verge: "Granted, OSM took this as an opportunity to get in the
> public eye by piggybacking on the iPad’s media fanfare; I applaud them for
> their maturity in their statement though. Many companies would’ve latched
> onto this and unleashed the lawyers threatening this and that, but they chose
> to be civil, point out the missing attributions, and say they are ‘we look
> forward to working with Apple to get that on there.’ A little civility goes a
> long way (in my book). I’m quite sick of the mudslinging in this space."
>
> Thanks to everyone who's put the hours in today, to all the coders and
> sysadmins who sweat blood to not only keep OSM running but make it easier and
> faster... and to every single mapper making a map so amazing that everyone
> _wants_ to use it.
>
> cheers
> Richard
>
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