<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Roland Olbricht <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roland.olbricht@gmx.de">roland.olbricht@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> is there any other way to get OSM data without going to the main server?<br>
> there are no other caches, right?<br>
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</div>There is a whole ecosystem of servers providing OSM data<br>
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<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm</a><br>
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There are a couple of sources for excerpts or diff files listed on this page.<br>
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<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ROMA" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ROMA</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TRAPI" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TRAPI</a><br>
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These two services are optimised for queries to make a map of the data. They<br>
are intended to be only some minutes behind the main server but don't offer<br>
all the tags. So you should not use the data for further editing.<br>
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<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/XAPI" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/XAPI</a><br>
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This is the well known alternative to the main API. It's also intended to be<br>
only minutes behind the main server. It has an extended API with still a<br>
concise syntax. The data is usable for editing. The only tag that is filtered<br>
out is "created_by" - this tag can safely be ignored.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Correction. XAPI does provide the created_by tag. It also provides the version attribute.<br><br></div></div><br>