[WikiEN-l] new Google Earth tie-in (!!)

Tue Dec 12 20:12:46 UTC 2006

On 12/12/06, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
>  until Magnus's GeoHack broke (which may not have
> been coincidental!).

I don't believe in that kind of coincidence.  :-)

> We (and they) are in a rock-and-a-hard-place situation.  It's
> good that they're working from their own stashed copy instead of
> hitting us live, because I doubt our servers could handle their
> users' load.  But of course on the other hand it's supremely
> annoying that they're working from their own stashed copy,
> because (as you note and I emphatically agree) our lovely
> instantaneous wiki-quick edit-save-test loop is broken.
>
> As to updating their stashed copy more often, there's not much
> way we can ask them to do that when our own dumps only come out
> on a 2-4 week cycle. :-(

I agree that having live updating would be well outside the realm of
what we or Google want or are willing to pay for.  Maybe we can do
something to get back to a weekly dump schedule?  Preferably on
Google's dime?  ;-)