[OSM-dev] Wishes

[Peter Körner]

Bernhard zwischenbrugger schrieb:
> Hi all
> 
> My iPhone map tracker is now nearly finished.
> 
> There are 2 things that I can't do.
> 
> The GPX upload API is crap.
Please, don't do that. If you think it's not good, get the code from svn 
and fix it.

> GPX is XML and there is no need for multipart/form-data upload.
> To debug that kind of uploads is not possible.
why? there are http proxys out the, Paros Proxy to name one, that can 
debug this.

> A small serverside change would be much easier.
Okay, so go on and do it. Here's the code:
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/sites/rails_port/

> I have a php tile cache here on my laptop but can't test the cache settings.
> The php tile cache is too fast - same as browser cache.
Beleive me, php will die unter the number of requests. We're currently 
discuss using a squid cache for a company-map to keep the service 
quality independent of osm.org.

> 6 month cachetime would be good. I can make a config option in my 
> software to switch tileserver.
You now that osm tile data is not static? There are thousands of edits 
each minute and I want my changes beeing reflected by the map within at 
least an hour. I don't want 6 months of delay, not even 6 days!

> Please, please, please
> play with cache settings.
Please, please, please play with the way you talk to us. The  The GPX 
upload API is not crap, it's working very well with a lot of tools and 
just if your tool is not able to handle it, maybe your lib is crap.

Peter