[OSM-dev] How to use XAPI

[80n]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 8:57 PM, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 5:01 PM, bernhard zwischenbrugger <
> bz at datenkueche.com> wrote:
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>> Am 15.08.10 17:14, schrieb Roeland Douma:
>>
>>  You could only allow for the query on high zoom leves. Since what good is
>>> an
>>> overlay of all restaurants on zoomlevel 11?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> That's the point!
>>
>> A level 11 restaurant search in Europe does not make much sense.
>> But if I plan a bicycle trip in Laos it's very different.
>> (I was very hungry in Laos)
>>
>> For a motorbike trip in Cambodia a level 8 search for
>> tourism=hotel|guest_house
>> gives usefull informations.
>>
>> If the querys for low zoomlevels are disabled the tool makes not much
>> sense.
>> If the querys are not disabled, the db can't handle the querys.
>>
>> XAPI does not use zoom level as a limit.  Any query is permitted.
>
> There is a limit of 1 million elements for most queries.  There's also some
> heuristics which prevent silly queries.
>
>
> Sorry, that limit is 10 million elements.  1 million would be a bit mean.
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