pa yo wrote: > Hi Brett, > > I guess I could use osmosis to update a local copy of planet and then > teach myself some SQL so I could make my own atom feeds - which does > sound quite fun - but it would probably be even more likely to make my > brain explode than wrestling with SAX ... or trying to reverse > engineer universal feedparser. > Yep, fair enough :-) > I suspect that as the project gets bigger and bigger more and more of > us "non-devs" will want access to some sort of easily parsed data. > Okay then, what kind of data is more easily parsed than xml? At the end of the day, even an RSS feed is still xml. At this point I probably should make the comment that the minute feeds are designed to be a minimal mechanism for allowing consumers up-to-date access to OSM data without imposing a large overhead on the central db server. They're not intended to be used directly by end users, rather as a means of keeping alternate data stores in potentially different data formats current. It makes no assumptions about how consumers store their data locally or what they do with it. Any analysis or manipulation of the data is intended to be performed offline at the consumer end thus maximising scalability.
It all comes down to what you're trying to achieve. That will drive what data you need, how frequently you need it, how you access it, and in what format you need it to be stored. > Paul Y > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Brett Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I create the minute changeset files using the osmosis tool. It might be >> neat to expose them as an RSS feed but it's not something I'd have time >> to implement. So I don't think there's any technical reasons preventing >> it, just development time. >> >> To be honest I'd never considered it before :-) I think most current >> consumers of the minute feeds are using them to patch relational >> databases, and as a result are looking for something more reliable and >> efficient than an RSS feed to obtain the data. >> >> Thomas Wood wrote: >> >>> The OSMapper tool over at itoworld.com provides RSS feeds for edits to >>> a defined area, if this is what you want to achieve. >>> >>> 2009/4/1 paul youlten <[email protected]>: >>> >>> >>>> Full disclosure: I am not a dev.... but I come in peace. >>>> >>>> After a few days of struggling to parse the http://planet.../minute >>>> files into something useful with my childlike python skills and the >>>> incomprehensible SAX I was wondering if it might be possible to swap >>>> the /minute files for some sort of Atom feed that I can get Universal >>>> Feedparser to open. >>>> >>>> Ideally this would allow me to do so with something like: >>>> >>>> http://planet.openstreetmap.org/since_time:200904011535 >>>> >>>> let me know what you think... maybe there is some technical overhead >>>> that I don't understand. >>>> >>>> Paul Youlten >>>> >>>> ---- >>>> Tel: +44(0) 7814 517 807 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Tel: +44(0) 7814 517 807 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> dev mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >> >> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
