On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 10:23:22 +0100, "Jonas Krückel (John07)" <o...@jonas-krueckel.de> wrote: > Am 06.02.2009 um 08:28 schrieb <marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com>: > >> >> Hello, >> >> what about packaging everything one needs to set up a >> read-only api-server that applies the minutely diffs >> and re-importes the planet lets say once a month? >> >> Many do not need data that is accurate up to an hour >> but as there are no other servers they have to query >> the main-api-server anyway. >> >> Packaged up for an averare unix-guy to install >> in an apache-vhost, maybe with a central round-robin-dns >> over all such api-mirrors we can take a lot of load >> from the main server. >> > > I think you know about ROMA and TRAPI. But i think you are speaking > about a exact readonly-copy of the api.
No, I was indeed speaking about data that is a few minutes (/hours/days) old. I was not aware of ROMA and it seems to be exactly what I was aiming for. There is no need to get test-data for development, map-downloads by or for navigation-systems and anything that does not require editing of the most recent state to cause load on a central api-server. Thank you. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
