[OSM-dev] API/XAPI caching proxy server

[Tom Hughes]

On 16/12/10 22:01, Wyo wrote:
> Tom Hughes wrote:
>> It's not the number of requests which matters, it's the amount of data
>> that is returned. To trigger the limit you have to fetch several hundred
>> megabytes of data in a relatively short space of time.
>>
> I'm abashed ;-? It can't be that I've downloaded megabytes of data,
> there must be something wrong.

I was talking about the size of the XML before any compression, so the 
number of bytes you actually download will be significantly less.

> Besides does rate limiting also limit uploading? I just ask since I
> can't upload now for several minutes.

No, only the map call is limited at the moment. I think somebody is 
probably scraping the history api or something though which will be 
affecting uploads - there have certainly been some abnormal load 
warnings this evening.

Tom

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