[OSM-dev] "Deep History" App
Frederik Ramm
frederik at remote.org
Tue Sep 15 20:34:32 BST 2009
Hi,
Ian Dees wrote:
> That's disappointing. Am I the only one that cares about this? With
> permission I'd be happy to try and write something for the
> openstreetmap.org <http://openstreetmap.org> site to make this feasible
> and not kill the API frontend servers.
I am very much in favour of supplying, and periodically updating, a full
OSM history dump. I think the main reasons why this is not being done
currently are
(a) nobody wrote a program for it
(b) any program that does get written would have to be engineered in a
clever way in order not to put too much strain on the data base and
still produce something consistent
So my suggestion would be to write such a program an then campaign for
it being used on openstreetmap.org. - Third party servers importing that
data could then offer all sorts of APIs for history queries.
Bye
Frederik
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