On Sunday 10 May 2009 23:20:44 Mitja Kleider wrote: > Hello, > > after having some trouble with the precision and number of bugs returned by > OpenStreetBugs [1] I contacted the author (Xav). He agreed that it needed > to be rewritten. I already tried some code which was used for testing > purposes only [2]. > I continued developing that code in a public repository. I also added > scripts to dump the Appspot database (based on Xav's dump method). > > The new service is now running on a sponsored test server [3]. Appspot data > is imported once a day. I also sent a patch to Xav to proxy the new > database on Appspot for a smooth transition to the new service. > > I hope that this patch will be applied soon. Xavier was afraid of > Javascript slowness now where each request returns 100 bugs. Can anyone > confirm that this is a problem? This number could still be changed. > > I think it would be nice if the service was using the domain > openstreetbugs.org (easy to remember). > Currently it is available at http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/ > > If you like to use the service in JOSM you can change the settings from > http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/* to > http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/api/0.1/* > > You find some statistics, daily database dumps and various links at the > "more" link on the new website. Some details are also documented in the > wiki [4]. > > One last thing: my goal was to get better query results and more access to > the data. I do not intend to spend a lot of time on developing this > service. You are always welcome to send patches, maybe it is also possible > to share access to the repository. And in the worst case: forking is easy. > > I hope you enjoy the new OpenStreetBugs!
Nice, but there seems to be a problem with UTF-8 encoding. Check the area around http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/?zoom=13&lat=58.39771&lon=15.64477&layers=B00T and see if you can see the errors. -Inge > Greetings, > Mitja > > [1] http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/ > [2] http://www.b3e.net/openstreetbugs.html > [3] http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/ > [4] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Emka/new_OSB > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
