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Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps

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Re: Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps

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Post by fodkodrasz »

Guvante wrote: post #62
davidy123 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Usually this is a sign of a project that isn't ready for a lot of attention. It's very brave and a little bit stupid to offer Open Source to the world (especially without a sustainability plan), if you put a lot of effort into 'marketing' at an early stage you've probably just overpromised to people not focused on that domain, won't be able to deliver, and will burn out, and it will become yet another abandoned proje…

I don't think this project is looking for a lot of attention. It is more like a sample of cool stuff you can do.

I agree, but still 1-2 paragraph about why this was made, what is for laymans, and what it is in terms of OSM ecosystem. Possibly my extrovert self makes it natural to write similar intros to repos I make public. (I even used to blog!)

Re: Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps

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Post by sbarre »

dagw wrote: post #50
sbarre wrote: post #12

Same feedback as everyone else: You fell into the trap of assuming that everyone else understands this topic/project/thing that you're deeply familiar with because you've been living it for so long. Not everyone knows what "OSM" is. Even a 2-3 sentence paragraph in your TL;DR that explains (a) what this is and (b) why people should care or want this, would be immensely helpful.

On the other hand if you don't know what "OSM" is, then you probably don't need this, and probably don't need to care.

Fair but I was referring to the whole write-up on the Gist page not just the headline here on HN.

Re: Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps

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Post by davidy123 »

bspammer wrote: post #36
davidy123 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Usually this is a sign of a project that isn't ready for a lot of attention. It's very brave and a little bit stupid to offer Open Source to the world (especially without a sustainability plan), if you put a lot of effort into 'marketing' at an early stage you've probably just overpromised to people not focused on that domain, won't be able to deliver, and will burn out, and it will become yet another abandoned proje…

I can’t tell if your comment was meant to be ironic but OSM has been around for 20 years, and its data is used by billions of people.

The comment was about https://github.com/markuman/sms, not OSM.
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