<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 19:38, Grant Slater <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:openstreetmap@firefishy.com">openstreetmap@firefishy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 1 September 2010 15:14, Chris Browet <<a href="mailto:cbro@semperpax.com">cbro@semperpax.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> While I'd completely agree in a business world, don't forget we are FLOSS<br>
> developers working on software in our free time.<br>
> We don't (at least I don't, and I doubt Marble has) have "a server". OSMF<br>
> do.<br>
> Just put a big red sticker on the wiki saying "ABSOLUTELY DO NOT USE OUR WEB<br>
> SERVICES, SETUP YOUR OWN!", then...<br>
> - Chris -<br>
<br>
</div>Lets calm down a little. :-)<br>
<br>
There are 3 reasons why I called for the short notice of shutdown:<br>
<br>
1) gazetteer's data hasn't been updated for over 2 years. Internally<br>
it has been considered to be deprecated. Likely we should have<br>
announced this earlier. Oh well.<br>
2) When I checked the usage recently it was extremely low. I wasn't<br>
aware Marble used gazetteer. Marble does not provide a User-Agent when<br>
querying gazetteer. If it had, I would have been less eager.<br>
3) We have other services that are waiting for hardware.<br>
<br>
Mistakes have been made... now lets move on.<br>
<br>
I'm going to have a hack at creating a namefinder/gazetteer -><br>
nominatim bridge script.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div>Now, that's a positive attitude :-)<br>Indeed, let's move on and learn our lessons...<br><br>For myself:<br>- Be sure to monitor the dev list more closely;<br>- Considering the reactions, maybe avoid as much as possible to use <a href="http://openstreetmap.org">openstreetmap.org</a> services, but anyway be sure it fails gracefully.<br>
<br>- Chris - <br></div></div><br>