[OSM-dev] XAPI and other solutions

[Pierre-Alain Dorange]

Hi, i'm a french contributor and i look for advice for a project.

I'm processing free french city official data (from insee, official stat
agency) and i have to match those city with osm city (place=*) to
geolocalize it on a map.
The project is to present cctv surveillance in the country (see demo at
[1]).

To get those data and preprocess them i used XAPI to retrive all nodes
with tag place=* :

The result is fine but XAPI servers are randomly running and data seems
old. New Java XAPI servers do not accept the bounding box : too large.

What are the best way to retrieve OSM raw data (xml format would be
preferable) to update regulary the project's data ?

Thanks.

[1] project demo
http://www.leretourdelautruche.com/map/cctv/cctv_map.php

These map show city global data (user contributions) and individual cctv
camera localisation (from OSM man_made=surveillance) when you zoom to a
city with cctv mapped (ie. Strasbourg) :
<http://www.leretourdelautruche.com/map/cctv/cctv_map.php?zoom=15&lat=48
.5831&lon=7.75238&layers=B0T>

-- 
Pierre-Alain Dorange
OSM experiences : <http://www.leretourdelautruche.com/map/>