[OSM-dev] API/XAPI caching proxy server

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Stefan Keller wrote:
> But at least regarding XAPI (as indicated in the thread title) it's
> true: Although http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Platform_Status
> indicates green/OK, my tests and the remarks at
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi#Servers tell me that there's
> currently no XAPI server answers in less than 60s.

You're right that XAPI is in this thread's subject, but Wyo explicitly 
talked about mapping, for which XAPI is not required.

Generally, we view the "data input" side as most important. If we have a 
situation where editing becomes a problem, then OSM admins are likely to 
do something about this sooner rather than later because the community 
absolutely depends on the server being available for this (you cannot 
set up your own database and use that for mapping).

For the "data output" side, however, the central servers are not 
critical. Anyone who is unhappy with the performance of XAPI *can* set 
up their own mirror server by using the minutely diffs we publish - the 
centrally maintained XAPI server does nothing else. So while it is of 
course a nice thing to have if people can download all motorways of 
Europe in one query, this is an ancillary service. If someone wants to 
roll this out on a large database cluster, they can do that (provided 
they find a suitable cluster somewhere - but that's a problem OSM would 
have just the same.)

Bye
Frederik

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