On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 13:26, Chris Browet <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If you want to use an OSM service in one of your applications, then I >> would suggest firstly, and most importantly, that the application >> doesn't have a *.openstreetmap.org URL embedded anywhere in the code. > > Come on. Does that mean that we cannot use "www.openstreetmap.org/api" to > update the database?
Well, in the context of stable OS releases that distribute programs like Merkaartor the API is pretty much *guaranteed* to break. An Ubuntu LTS release is 5 years, Red Hat and Debian have something similar. That's a lot less time than the entire 0.5 -> 0.6 transition took. Didn't we have existing packaged programs that used 0.5 break for this exact reason when we switched to 0.6? If not we're certain to have it if we ever switch to 0.7, depending on the nature of the API changes. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
