On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > No, seriously, it would be great if someone found a way to modify the API > (more precisely, the cgimap program) so that it accepts requests for larger > bounding boxes in sparsely mapped areas. It is probably not easy to do this > in a performant manner though, as by the time you have found out that the > area that was requested contains a million nodes, you have already spent a > lot of time slowing down the database - maybe one would have to have a > special mapping density index for various regions of the planet.
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