On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Roland Olbricht <[email protected]>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 > > 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. > Correction. XAPI does provide the created_by tag. It also provides the version attribute.
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