[OSM-dev] OSM Architecture

2010-05-14 Thread Calin Juravle
Hello, I am currently investigating OSM architecture for an university project. I read almost all information for developers from the wiki, but I could not find what I'm interest in. Is there any place where I may find documents that contain requirements, design choices, how certain tradeoffs

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Architecture

2010-05-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
Calin, Calin Juravle wrote: I am currently investigating OSM architecture for an university project. I read almost all information for developers from the wiki, but I could not find what I'm interest in. Is there any place where I may find documents that contain requirements, design choices,

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Architecture

2010-05-14 Thread Tom Hughes
On 14/05/10 16:15, Calin Juravle wrote: I am currently investigating OSM architecture for an university project. I read almost all information for developers from the wiki, but I could not find what I'm interest in. Is there any place where I may find documents that contain requirements,

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Architecture

2010-05-14 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
On Friday 14 May 2010 17:32:25 Frederik Ramm wrote: OSM as it is today has not been drafted at the desk At the desk? More like on paper napkins at the pub! :-D -- -- Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas,

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Architecture

2010-05-14 Thread Gregory
2010/5/14 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es On Friday 14 May 2010 17:32:25 Frederik Ramm wrote: OSM as it is today has not been drafted at the desk At the desk? More like on paper napkins at the pub! Excuse me, it is at least done on the back of a printed map that was brought to

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Architecture

2010-05-14 Thread Calin Juravle
Thanks for the quick answers :) Cheers, Calin On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 14/05/10 16:15, Calin Juravle wrote: I am currently investigating OSM architecture for an university project. I read almost all information for developers from the wiki, but I

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Architecture

2010-05-14 Thread Calin Juravle
If you have time, can you point me to a bottleneck you encountered? (maybe it was discuss on some thread here). My hope was to get some hints about the tradeoff points in OSM, and some examples when, during development, a certain quality aspect was prioritize over the others. But I understand

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Architecture

2010-05-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
Calin, Calin Juravle wrote: If you have time, can you point me to a bottleneck you encountered? (maybe it was discuss on some thread here). One example of the procedure that Tom mentioned is the introduction of a tile field in our MySQL data model which allowed us to bypass the limitation

Re: [OSM-dev] OSM Architecture

2010-05-14 Thread Grant Slater
2010/5/14 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es: On Friday 14 May 2010 17:32:25 Frederik Ramm wrote: OSM as it is today has not been drafted at the desk At the desk? More like on paper napkins at the pub! You Know too Much! Yes! But Matt and TomH has done the real work, they are just