roland wrote: > > > is there any other way to get OSM data without going to the main server? > > there are no other caches, right? > > There is a whole ecosystem of servers providing OSM data
thank you roland -- i wasn't aware of all the options. my main use is fetching quadtile-size bounding boxes, so xapi has been the alternative of choice, but i'll explore the others. paul > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm > > There are a couple of sources for excerpts or diff files listed on this page. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ROMA > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TRAPI > > These two services are optimised for queries to make a map of the data. They > are intended to be only some minutes behind the main server but don't offer > all the tags. So you should not use the data for further editing. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/XAPI > > This is the well known alternative to the main API. It's also intended to be > only minutes behind the main server. It has an extended API with still a > concise syntax. The data is usable for editing. The only tag that is > filtered > out is "created_by" - this tag can safely be ignored. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Server_Side_Script > > This one is very recent and still in a state of playground. It is intended > to > serve particular complex queries beyond the scope of XAPI. It also offers > (almost) the complete functionality of XAPI. It is some hours behind the > main > API. It does not serve data that can be used for editing, in particular it > does not provide version information. If somebody asks for version number > support (or other metadata), I'll start to implement that. There has been no > demand so far. > > There may be other storage servers, the category "Data storage" on the wiki > is > not yet written. But at least, there are plenty of alternatives to download > data from the main server. > > Cheers, > Roland > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk =--------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 51.6 degrees) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
