On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Tom Hughes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@compton.nu" target="_blank">tom@compton.nu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 16/10/12 16:40, Tom MacWright wrote:<br>
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> The problem I see is, other than pointing to <a href="http://planet.openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">planet.openstreetmap.org</a><br>
<<a href="http://planet.openstreetmap.org/" target="_blank">http://planet.openstreetmap.<u></u>org/</a>> I'm not sure where else we would send<br>
them?<br>
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While there are lots of other places to get things like regional extracts they are unofficial third party sites so I don't think that we should be referring people to them from the main site.<br>
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I think pointing people to jXAPI could work, or one thing. And, the<br>
whole 'unofficial third party sources' bit isn't that strong;<br>
<a href="http://planet.osm.org" target="_blank">planet.osm.org</a> <<a href="http://planet.osm.org" target="_blank">http://planet.osm.org</a>> points to third-party sources,<br>
and so does the wiki.<br>
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Well when <a href="http://jxapi.osm.org" target="_blank">jxapi.osm.org</a> is stable then maybe we would, though I'm not entirely clear if this is really what it is designed for or how likely it would be to stand lots of large area downloads.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>It was indeed designed to handle larger areas like this, but I think it might be more interesting to restart the thread about cached, tiled data again to make these large area queries faster.</div>
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