> I think it's important here to separate technically rational arguments > like > "one update per week is enough" from emotional/social/visceral factors > like > "omg, I made a change and it's already in the map!" That instant feedback > has been a huge factor in Wikipedia's success. If the original > contributors > had had to wait a week to see their change incorporated in anything, it > never would have progressed beyond a niche activity. > > I'm not saying it's easy to get the hardware to make this happen for > multiple renderings, like CloudMade can do. But it's important, if we want > to attract more users. > Oh, come on! Minutely rendering of Mapnik is an recent development. The original contributors to OSM *did* have to wait a while to see any changes. Sometimes more than a week. And you can't say OSM hasn't come on since then can you? It can't be that big a block to attracting more users: The number of users has increased dramatically - almost exponentially.
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