<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 4 Jul 2009, at 20:27, Graham Jones wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I am trying to find a way of obtaining OSM data (read only) for use in an application for providing additional information on top of a pre-rendered map (e.g. display of locations of pubs, shops etc. as selected by the user).<br> There seem to be quite a few ways to do this:<br><ol><li>The main OSM API (but it is a shame to use that server for a read only application?).</li><li>XAPI (looks promising but I think the servers are ill at the moment - I like the idea of having an appeal for a new one if necessary!).</li> <li>TRAPI (this looks like a neat idea, but is not clear to me whether there are any working servers, or if this is just a concept?).</li><li>ROMA (Sounds similar to TRAPI, but again I do not know if there are any servers)</li> <li>TileDataServer (I think that TRAPI is an extension of this).</li></ol>Can anyone advise me on whether there are working servers for 3, 4 and 5 above please?<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>An other option would be to setup a local version of 1. and use osmosis with the daily/hourly/minute diffs to keep it up to date after the first import.</div><div><br></div><div>Shaun</div><br><blockquote type="cite">The other thing I was thinking about was setting up a little XAPI server to play with myself, but I am struggling to work out how to install it on my computer (I know nothing about GT.M...) Can anyone point me to some instructions please?<br> <br>Graham.<br><br>-- <br>Dr. Graham Jones<br>Hartlepool, UK<br>email: <a href="mailto:grahamjones139@gmail.com">grahamjones139@gmail.com</a><br> _______________________________________________<br>dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:dev@openstreetmap.org">dev@openstreetmap.org</a><br>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>