[OSM-dev] API 0.7 brainstorming

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

On Thursday 30 December 2010 00:05:12 Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Are you kidding? Thousands of people use the API each day, and nobody
> gets a pony. I consider this a severe shortcoming.

Lacks of ponies might be an item in your wishlist. The bug is that nobody gets 
unicorns.



Seriously now.

We wanna focus on the licensing change. Tools for that are gonna eat up 
developers' time.

That said: the growth of commercial hardware capabilities is not keeping up 
with the growth of data in the OSM database. That means we're pretty much 
frakked in two to three years. Which means that the first priority for 0.7 
should be splitting the DB out to more than one monster-sized server.

I do think that proper sharding/replication/whatever will need changes at the 
API level. I do not completely trust database-level-only 
sharding/replication/whatever.


Best,
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Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es> <ivan at geonerd.org>

Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una herramienta compleja.
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