[OSM-dev] Atom feed kind of thing

[pa yo]

Hi Brett,

I guess I could use osmosis to update a local copy of planet and then
teach myself some SQL so I could make my own atom feeds - which does
sound quite fun - but it would probably be even more likely to make my
brain explode than wrestling with SAX ... or trying to reverse
engineer universal feedparser.

I suspect that as the project gets bigger and bigger more and more of
us "non-devs" will want access to some sort of easily parsed data.

Paul Y


On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Brett Henderson <brett at bretth.com> wrote:
> I create the minute changeset files using the osmosis tool.  It might be
> neat to expose them as an RSS feed but it's not something I'd have time
> to implement.  So I don't think there's any technical reasons preventing
> it, just development time.
>
> To be honest I'd never considered it before :-)  I think most current
> consumers of the minute feeds are using them to patch relational
> databases, and as a result are looking for something more reliable and
> efficient than an RSS feed to obtain the data.
>
> Thomas Wood wrote:
>> The OSMapper tool over at itoworld.com provides RSS feeds for edits to
>> a defined area, if this is what you want to achieve.
>>
>> 2009/4/1 paul youlten <paul at yellowikis.org>:
>>
>>> Full disclosure: I am not a dev.... but I come in peace.
>>>
>>> After a few days of struggling to parse the http://planet.../minute
>>> files into something useful with my childlike python skills and the
>>> incomprehensible SAX I was wondering if it might be possible to swap
>>> the /minute files for some sort of Atom feed that I can get Universal
>>> Feedparser to open.
>>>
>>> Ideally this would allow me to do so with something like:
>>>
>>> http://planet.openstreetmap.org/since_time:200904011535
>>>
>>> let me know what you think... maybe there is some technical overhead
>>> that I don't understand.
>>>
>>> Paul Youlten
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