<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"><br>
> > Is there a low traffic OSM announcement list that provides announcements<br>
> > like these for people who rely on OpenStreetMap services?<br>
> there is an announce list, but for development announcements like this<br>
> one, this dev list is the best place.<br>
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</div>Well, I just browsed through the announce list and to be honest I think the<br>
deprecation of a public API really should have been announced there a year ago<br>
if it was already obvious that it would get discontinued.<br>
Personally I'd say it should be good practice to announce the deprecation half<br>
a year before shutdown of the service on osm-announce.<br><br></blockquote><div>I'm afraid I must agree on that (at least 3 months, I'd say, not 2 weeks for sure)</div><div><br></div><div>Merkaartor was using gazetteer for 1+ year and I only learned of it being closed down by casually browsing the dev list.</div>
<div>Now, name search on 0.16.x which is going to be included in the newest Fedora and Debian won't work :-(</div><div><br></div><div>As far as I'm concerned, I even didn't know about nominatim, nor the fact that gazetteer was so behind on updates. I'm afraid there is a communication channel missing somewhere...</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Chris -</div></div>