except it wouldnt be multiplatform and only run on windows 🤢🤮. Java is a better alternative as it's a popular language and is multiplatform. C/c++ is a bit more complicated and not everyone can contribute.
On Feb 17, 2018 10:56 AM, "john whelan" <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think that highlights the point on the limited resources available on > the resource side. > > What we have sort of works. Could it be better? Most probably. > > The JOSM editor is very nice but it runs over JAVA and JAVA has been > recognised as a security problem and it not recommended for many > corporations. > > Something in Visual Basic sorry Visual Studio Express might be more > acceptable. > > Most commercial coding these days is done in Visual Studio for good > reasons. To change the database architecture and the associated > infrastructure is a fairly large change. There is a lot of investment in > what we have but on the other hand the most valuable bit of what we have is > the data and that can moved across. > > Will it happen. Probably not. Normally what causes this sort of change > is money. Things like support costs, what do we do when the guys who know > this stuff disappear? Can we demonstrate the code is clean and reliable? > I don't think there is anyone looking at these sort of things. > > Cheerio John > > On 17 February 2018 at 09:45, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 9:53 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Possibly a technical working group to identify areas that could be >>> improved or even if we were to start over again how would we do it from a >>> technical point of view? Funding would be a different problem. >>> >> >> I believe the now-defunct Strategic Working Group ( >> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Strategic_Working_Group) is what you >> are looking for? >> >> ~Eugene >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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