"<i>I clicked the link, but Hacker News is often blocked in the Marshall Islands, so I got a 404.</i>"<p>Is there reason for the blocking? Is it the government censoring content? Or is it simply an island nation has to ration its bandwidth?<p>I ask because Marshall Islands are in a free association with the United States (where the US provides services and protection). Preventing residents from reaching US websites really rubs me the wrong way.<p>Maybe I'm just reading too much into the word block when he really means unreachable. Marshall Islands are rated as Free under the Freedom of Press Report, but are unclassified by the OpenNet Initiative. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_country" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_country</a><p>edit: I am sorry for my tangent based on a single line in your write up. It really jumped out at me and I hope you can expand on the situation.<p>You have a cool product and congratulations on the exposure. Good luck!
What is the reason you started this, as oppose to contribute to <a href="http://ideditor.com/" rel="nofollow">http://ideditor.com/</a> or OpenStreetMaps?<p>If people actually spend time on your site, they would be wasting it, as your data will not carry over to OSM based datasets, unless you spend more time converting the data into usable format for OSM. In which case, they probably should have been using <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.openstreetmap.org/</a> to draw to begin with.
I've always had the impression that submissions on HN were done by the authors 99% of the time. It's funny to hear about it happening the other way around, and him not even knowing about it.
Glad to see this project get more attention...the good thing about HN and other submission sites is that you always have the opportunity to do an explanatory/reflective post, as you've done here.<p>One suggestion I have is to SEO the title page a little bit...that is, put the tagline ("Interactive maps with open buildings data") in the title tag so that your site is associated correctly with what it offers, rather than just "Majuro.js"
Congrats on making the HN front page twice.<p>Very interesting being a developer when upload and download speeds are so limited. Paying 10 cents per megabyte sounds like you have to be very thoughtful about what you do.<p>I used 90GB from home last month, or a $9000 bill if I lived there. Ouch.