On 17 October 2012 05:26, Roland Olbricht <roland.olbri...@gmx.de> wrote:
> It has roughly the same importance than the main API The OSMF Operations Working Group classify the planet.osm.org feeds at the same (highest) level of importance to the project already. It's absolutely core. > On the other hand, for somebody who is not yet familiar with the OSM data > format (XML, PBF or both), the planet.osm.org is unlikely to be useful, so > both are services with quite distinct audiences. I find it hard to argue that giving someone a bbox-extract from the website, a regional extract from geofabrik or the whole planet file are distinct from one another in any meaningful way beyond size. An integrated approach seems more logical. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
