[OSM-dev] API/XAPI caching proxy server

[Jon Burgess]

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 22:10 +0100, Peter Körner wrote:
> 
> Am 16.12.2010 22:05, schrieb 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.
> 
> The osm2pgsql scheme does not store meta information (version, creator, 
> timestamp), which are required to create valid .osm files.

I am not sure whether osm2pgsql would be the right starting place or not
since it was never designed for this application but it can at least
store this information...

$ osm2pgsql --help
...
   -x|--extra-attributes
                        Include attributes for each object in the database.
                        This includes the username, userid, timestamp and version.
                        Note: this option also requires additional entries in your style file.

    Jon