On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Dirk Stöcker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Matthias Julius wrote:
>
> >> OK - I wasn't aware that the ROMA servers were being used for other
> >> purposes.  That's why I asked first.  If that's the case, then we should
> >> leave the db alone.
> >>
> >> I've been trying to speed up the response time of my server without
> having
> >> to purchase additional hardware - guess maybe I'll have to look at some
> >> additional drives.
> >
> > I don't think there is anything wrong with [EMAIL PROTECTED] dedicated ROMA 
> > servers
> > as long it is clear to a potential user that its data is incomplete
> > and meant to be for [EMAIL PROTECTED] only.
> >
> > They probably should run behind their own load balancer called
> > roma.tah.openstreetmap.org or so.  And they should include a comment
> > in their data about the fact.
>
> I would not encourage such special handling in cases where the data is so
> equal to the main API (i.e. I would have no objections for converted data
> in other formats).
>
> One of the problems is that future is not really predictable and it is
> much better to have an open interface compared to a short-term speedup.
> It is already a bad idea that created_by is skipped in XAPI. Don't make
> the same problems with ROMA.
>

I will fix that then.



>
> If on the other hand a standard interface can be established, so that
> e.g. the server is faster when a "strip-xxx" request is done, but a
> non-stripped request can be delivered nevertheless (as default) I would
> say this could be a fine solution.
>
> Ciao
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