[OSM-dev] XAPI and other solutions

Toby Murray toby.murray at gmail.com
Sat Apr 23 21:57:20 BST 2011


You can set up your own jXAPI server and disable the bounding box
limit. But this takes about 500 GB of drive space and several days of
processing.

Another option is to use osmosis to filter objects out the planet file:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/Detailed_Usage_0.39#--tag-filter_.28--tf.29

Toby


On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Pierre-Alain Dorange <pdorange at mac.com> wrote:
> Hi, i'm a french contributor and i look for advice for a project.
>
> I'm processing free french city official data (from insee, official stat
> agency) and i have to match those city with osm city (place=*) to
> geolocalize it on a map.
> The project is to present cctv surveillance in the country (see demo at
> [1]).
>
> To get those data and preprocess them i used XAPI to retrive all nodes
> with tag place=* :
>
> The result is fine but XAPI servers are randomly running and data seems
> old. New Java XAPI servers do not accept the bounding box : too large.
>
> What are the best way to retrieve OSM raw data (xml format would be
> preferable) to update regulary the project's data ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> [1] project demo
> http://www.leretourdelautruche.com/map/cctv/cctv_map.php
>
> These map show city global data (user contributions) and individual cctv
> camera localisation (from OSM man_made=surveillance) when you zoom to a
> city with cctv mapped (ie. Strasbourg) :
> <http://www.leretourdelautruche.com/map/cctv/cctv_map.php?zoom=15&lat=48
> .5831&lon=7.75238&layers=B0T>
>
> --
> Pierre-Alain Dorange
> OSM experiences : <http://www.leretourdelautruche.com/map/>
>
>
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