On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Igor Brejc <[email protected]> wrote:
> Frederik Ramm wrote: > > I would imagine some complaints from those users who are not interested > > in buildings, and for whom 90% of the data they download is useless > > after the import. You might have to provide filtered extracts for them. > > > > > I agree with Frederik, although I see a practical problem of trying to > download data from France (or anywhere else for that matter) using > OSMXAPI and then ending up downloading gigabytes of data, most of which > you will throw away afterwards (if you don't need buildings, for example). > I think we should think about providing a more flexible querying scheme > for OSMXAPI which would allow excluding OSM elements based on tags. > Currently this is not possible, AFAIK. > This is perfectly feasible. > > One alternative (if this OSMXAPI suggestion turns out to be too much for > the servers to handle) would be to provide regular planet dumps split > into small tiles (1x1 degree, for example). Since planet dump files are > zipped, this would present much smaller chunks of data to download. > (Software) clients would then have to filter and re-merge data from > tiles themselves, but that's their problem. > > Igor > > -- > http://igorbrejc.net > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >
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