<span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 13/03/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ludwig M Brinckmann</b> <<a href="mailto:ludwigbrinckmann@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
ludwigbrinckmann@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I think you misunderstood me. I perfectly understand the reasons why the API gives the 400 error. <br><br>What
I thought was 'insane' however was the attitude that my desire to
'download the whole of London' was somehow not justified rather than
just pointing out a temporary shortcoming of the software. Just because
it did not work and there was no trivial workaround (apart from
download the whole planet, install ruby, install another DB, configure
a few scripts...) did not mean that my request was somehow outlandish.
Remember, 'the customer is always right' ;-)
<br><br>But with these scripts I think we will get a very good
workaround that will reduce workload on the server and give people what
they want: easy access to open data. Best of both worlds really. Over
and out.</blockquote>
</span><br><br>Hehe... I download the whole of London every week (<a href="http://beerwarmer.randomjunk.co.uk/osm/%29" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://beerwarmer.randomjunk.co.uk/osm/)
</a>.. I just tile the
requests into about 300 queries run over the period of a few hours.
That runs to about 60MB these days which is a significant sized downoad
from any web server... even without the backend database activity that
entails. Doing something with that, like rendering it with osmarender, takes the better part of 2 hours and 2GB of RAM.<br>
<br>
So TBH, custom queries of that size are a little crazy. But yeah, a big
dump of areas people might like neatly packaged would be cool.
Preferrably in some way that meant you didn't need to buy (or steal) so
much ram that you could actually run windows vista on the machine
(obviously not at the same time).