Re: [OSM-talk] XAPI URL for one way by ID?

2009-08-25 Thread 80n
XAPI is intended to provide capabilities that are not available with the standard API. It is not intended to duplicate the API capabilities. So the quick answer is use the API if you want to get a way by id. The longer answer is that it could be implemented in XAPI fairly trivially, and was

Re: [OSM-talk] XAPI URL for one way by ID?

2009-08-25 Thread Gary68
hi! but XAPI is also intended to take load off the API, right? so it might be a good idea to implement these simple query functions. my 2cts cheers gerhard gary68 On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 07:31 +0100, 80n wrote: XAPI is intended to provide capabilities that are not available with the

Re: [OSM-talk] XAPI URL for one way by ID?

2009-08-25 Thread Dirk-Lüder Kreie
Gary68 schrieb: hi! but XAPI is also intended to take load off the API, right? so it might be a good idea to implement these simple query functions. actually, no. The XAPI was really written to answer types of queries where the API would not cope, or the API was not made for (give me every

Re: [OSM-talk] XAPI URL for one way by ID?

2009-08-25 Thread 80n
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Gary68 g...@gary68.de wrote: hi! but XAPI is also intended to take load off the API, right? so it might be a good idea to implement these simple query functions. Yes, it does now help to take the load off the main API so there is some sense in implementing

[OSM-talk] XAPI URL for one way by ID?

2009-08-24 Thread Gary68
hi, on API i can GET http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/Id using the same string on XAPI like http://osmxapi.hypercube.telascience.org/api/0.6/way/38427403 results in firefox can't find the file... initially I typed http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/way/23328268 (other id,