Am 01.08.2012 22:56, schrieb "Petr Morávek [Xificurk]":
Peter Wendorff wrote:
If you rise a flag for the consumers side and decrease the mapping
useability with that, these mappers will go away - and afterwards most
probably the data consumers will follow, because there's no (updated)
data any more in a reasonable quality and quantity.
I did not say that perfect usability should be our holy grail, or that
we should do everything we can to make things easy for consumers. That's
the other extreme that's not healthy either.
nice to agree here ;)
I simply object to the claim that consumers are "totally unimportant".
If we can agree this is a wrong attitude, I would be happy ;-)
fine.
I don't know any project that has not been build because of the complex
or unuseable data model.
Do you have examples for "amazing tools" that have been stopped in
development due to the data model?
Are you seriously asking me the question that falls into the same
category as "When was the last time you saw an invisible dragon?" :-)
Well, I don't think we don't provide enough possibilities to get in contact.
Mailing lists, forum, local meetings...
Whoever wants to do such a project usually has to get in contact with
the data providers, and there it's independent if it's OSM or navteq or
anyone else.
At Navteq and other companies you even are not able to get a glance on
the data without getting in contact to them.
OSM provides you the data even anonymous, and you're free to ask for
help and further information.
Hundrets get in contact with osm as newbies every week, I'm sure, I
think, around 10 we have in average per week, that visit the german IRC
channel alone and ask questions, as mappers, as possible web map users,
as possible coders, as possible companies thinking about more
sophisticated solutions.
Some go away again, some even ask for someone doing something for money,
some stay as active contributors, and some provide patches and ideas to
code.
If someone wants to do an "amazing tool" using geodata alone without
getting in contact, he most probably will fail - independent of the data
source used.
So I claim that most of these tools either didn't think about using OSM
seriously or they don't exist, but they are, I guess, not purely invisible.
This will happen if we will call consumers "totally unimportant" and if
we will produce _unnecessarily_ hard to use data just because "we can"
and "they must deal with it".
Nobody want's to produce "unneccessarily hard to use data", but it's
still your unproven and for some of us unbelieved claim that it's easier
to use with relations, summarized over data consumers and mappers.
regards
Peter
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