[OSM-dev] API/XAPI caching proxy server

[Stefan Keller]

> Rewriting xapi on the other hand is an excellent idea.

Yes, good idea.

I would probably start with osm2pgsql and setup a mirror (incuding
hstore). Since osm2pgsql uses the PostGIS database I think it
should'nt be too hard to turn predicates to WHERE clauses and bbox to
a ST_Within query in PostGIS.

Yours, S.


2010/12/16 Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu>:
> On 16/12/10 16:18, Philipp Borgers wrote:
>
>> We are going to setup one tile cache and a database mirror. We would
>> like to "rewrite" search functionality and perhaps xapi ;) At the moment
>> we are writing some javascript/ajax/frontend-foo and analyse the logs of
>> osm tile servers and generating heatsmaps of http access. We are going
>> to simulate a tile-cache setup with several caches in the future.
>
> Why would you want to rewrite search functionality when that is an area
> that has only recently been rewritten and is well supported and under
> active development?
>
> Rewriting xapi on the other hand is an excellent idea.
>
> Tom
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