Michael Noda wrote:
Indeed, for those of us more used to an edit-save-test paradigm, it becomes very confusing to not have corrections appear immediately. I still don't know if [[Iran]] is still 60 miles over the border in Iraqi Kurdistan, or if [[Connecticut]] is just off the South Fork of Long Island,
No to the latter, I dunno about the former. I was checking a bunch of these yesterday, and fixing them as necessary, and it was pretty easy, until Magnus's GeoHack broke (which may not have been coincidental!).
Maybe Google can be convinced to devote resources to accelerating their update schedule, but I for one am less hopeful.
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. :-(