Hi Frederik, You're right. I see that the priorities are elsewhere. There are still following questions which remain to me regarding XAPI:
> Anyone who is unhappy with the performance of XAPI *can* set up their own > mirror server by using the minutely diffs we publish As stated by Wyo (and me) above: The technology and the way XAPI is currently realized is out of discussion (MUMPS/GT.M). Being restricted to one tag predicate and one bbox predicate is just one of the limitations. Regarding code alternatives I quickly looked in the mailing lists and found: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xapi/ . But that's only an "initiative" yet. 1. I think all XAPI server mentioned in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/XAPI#Servers use the same code, don't they? 2. The http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Platform_Status should be more up-to-date: Who maintains it? Can anyone help there? 3. To me the question arises, who uses XAPI anyhow? Do you have an overview of the main apps? Yours, S. 2010/12/15 Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>: > Hi, > > Stefan Keller wrote: >> >> But at least regarding XAPI (as indicated in the thread title) it's >> true: Although http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Platform_Status >> indicates green/OK, my tests and the remarks at >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi#Servers tell me that there's >> currently no XAPI server answers in less than 60s. > > You're right that XAPI is in this thread's subject, but Wyo explicitly > talked about mapping, for which XAPI is not required. > > Generally, we view the "data input" side as most important. If we have a > situation where editing becomes a problem, then OSM admins are likely to do > something about this sooner rather than later because the community > absolutely depends on the server being available for this (you cannot set up > your own database and use that for mapping). > > For the "data output" side, however, the central servers are not critical. > Anyone who is unhappy with the performance of XAPI *can* set up their own > mirror server by using the minutely diffs we publish - the centrally > maintained XAPI server does nothing else. So while it is of course a nice > thing to have if people can download all motorways of Europe in one query, > this is an ancillary service. If someone wants to roll this out on a large > database cluster, they can do that (provided they find a suitable cluster > somewhere - but that's a problem OSM would have just the same.) > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
