On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:21:59AM +0100, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > bvh wrote: > >Sent: 13 June 2008 4:26 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [OSM-dev] Tiled download of larger areas from the api > > > >Timo Schlussler proposed a patch to merkaartor to work around the > >API limit on the download area. It basically divides the area in > >chunks acceptable for the api and downloads them one by one. > > > >Are there any objections from the server side of things to include > >this? > > I'd have thought that rather defeats the object of the current API > restriction.
The current API restriction is designed to prevent requesting huge datasets in a single request, because the memory that they use causes the number of processes that can be run to be limited. This is exactly the kind of thing that [EMAIL PROTECTED] does: if an area is too large (too many nodes) then it splits the data up into 10 'slices' and requests those slices instead. Given that, I think this fits in line with the way that existing tools handle requesting data that is too large for API limits... however, if poorly implemented, it could be a real pain in the butt. If someone requests -180,-90,180,90, you'd end up with thousands of requests sent by the client to the server, and that would be problematic... Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
