On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 04:17:44AM -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > Everyone (including me) has this idea every few years, especially your > second idea. Then they start coding and the problems begin to really > come to light, especially when it comes to reconsiling editing issues. > > I think this is one of those "it doesn't help to talk about it", > problems. Code, find the problems, then take a stab at fixing them, > then discuss better ways.
Yes of course many of those ideas I wrote down are not new. But I disagree with your conclusions. If people already thought about it and started coding and couldn't solve the problems, doesn't that suggest that this is *not* one of those problems where "it doesn't help to talk about it"? To me this suggests we need more talking, not less. :-) But I think you are partly right. I believe we can't think the whole problem through to the end. Its much too complex for that. But if we can agree on some framework, a rough design, then the details will come. And I think the "social issues" are more important than the technical issues here. First we have to decide whether we want to go down this road at all. Jochen -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
