[OSM-dev] API id placeholders

[Lars Aronsson]

Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) wrote:

> This way it does not take one 3-way-tcp-hand-handshake per 
> node/segment/way.

No, I was assuming a persistent TCP socket & HTTP connection, but 
the client waiting for the first response before sending the 
second request, i.e. the classic RPC behaviour.  Even the rather 
primitive coast_upload.pl script, which is written in Perl and 
uses the WWW::Curl::Easy library seems to reuse the same HTTP 
connection between requests.

I haven't looked at the JOSM source code, but one way out could be 
to start multiple threads, each having its own HTTP connection. 
That would be a rather ugly (and possibly unethical) way to 
over-consume server resources.

I haven't studied whether Java reuses the same connection, but my 
proposed "bundle" operation would speed things up either way.

> If you put a local caching Server on your machine in between 
> josm and the OSM-Server this sometimes speeds up stuff

This sounds rather exotic.  How many people have this?


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