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<div>If you don't mind about being open, why are you not
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Hello,<br>
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thank you for your insightful comment, I will move immediately to
Google and start using their data directly. Can you point out to
me where I can access their data so I can make an efficient use of
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Where can I access the OSM data?<br>
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I know it is possible to download the hole planet, setup a
database,... but that's not an easy task.<br>
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I'm a teacher and my students are able to load data from an API and
display the data on a map.<br>
Last year we did some projects using XAPI - but then xapi was
broken.<br>
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We had about 100 API Requests per week. For that amount of requests
it makes no sense to have a local copy of the db.<br>
But without db we are not able to read osm data.<br>
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Without data everything is tile based and that's the same as google
and bing are offering.<br>
MapQuest is offering XAPI now - but will it still be available in 2
month?<br>
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Bernhard<br>
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