On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:31:38 +0100, Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The API is based on http and very simple, so there is not much to > implement >> for loading data. > > ... but mobile navigation systems should probably be using planet > anyway and not pulling from the API as we don't have the resources > to support lots of read-only clients pulling from the API like that.
I don't see mobile clients with their own networking abilities to use the world-file. The world-file simply requires ressources that are nowhere near present. As for the API. This is read-only -access and need not be the most current data. So if we ever run into load-issues anyone can set up mirrors within hours/days using only a database, an apache and some php or python -code as well as the daily diffs and maybe a monthly full reload of the world-file. >> There was much fruitless discussion over the best format to store these >> but after a while we started simply mapping this insted of arguing >> with the "Karlsruhe Schema". It is done as an experiment to gather > experience >> how best to map all the exceptional cases of house-numbers but has been > widely >> adopted. >> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema > > I'm not sure widely is the right word... Right. Let's say "it's the only thing we have". Marcus _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
