[OSM-dev] JSON/GeoJSON output format for 0.6 api

[Nick Black]

Jeff + list,
Take a look at the candidate features for future versions of CloudMade's
vector map server:

http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/vector-tiles/issues

We're planning features that would support the kind of usage you are talking
about, including JSON output and filtering of the returned data.  All of
this will be separate to OSM so won't burden the OSM infrastructure and
allows OSM to focus on editing.

Vote up any features you like the sound off, add any more you need.

--
Nick


On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Tels wrote:
> > Well, one could fetch the data at z17, see it is below some
> > $ARBITRARY_THRESHOLD, zoom out to z16m, fetch again, and if still below
> > $THRESHOLD, repeat it until either there is too much data (display
> > message) or the user-requested zoomlevel was reached.
>
> I think the tiles at home folks already keep a database that says how
> complex each level-12 tile is. So if we were not so busy telling them
> how they're technologically backwards and how their whole project is
> rubbish, they might just give us that.
>
> I also suspect that the size of a PNG tile would bear a halfway linear
> relationship to the amount of data on that tile, so a HEAD request
> against the tile server could work just as well.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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