Hello Danny, The Api/0.6 is used by editor software like JOSM because it always has the most up-to-date data. That quality does come at a price though: A big Xeon server with 32GB of RAM and many discs. I'm not sysadmin, but I suspect they are starting to clamp down on non-editors using this valuable resource.
There are however a large number of alternatives to the api: XAPI and TRAPI servers will give near real-time data. Cloudmade & Geofabrik offer. You can even make your own extracts using tools like osmosis and bboxSplit on a weekly or even daily basis. On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Danny Backx <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The buildmap tool from the roadmap project > (http://sf.net/projects/roadmap) accesses OSM to download map info, via > queries like > > www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/map?bbox=5.053710,52.163085,5.097655,52.207030 > > It often gets "HTTP/1.1 509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded" replies. > > My basic question is how to respond to that. Are there alternate > servers ? Is there suggested behaviour for applications that try to > download map info this way ? > > Thanks, > > Danny > -- > Danny Backx ; danny.backx - at - scarlet.be ; http://danny.backx.info > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
