[OSM-dev] XAPI: Any difference between 'map' and '*' and between '[bbox=...]' and '?bbox=...'?

[Philipp Borgers]

The map query is functionally identical to the tag
query /api/0.6/*[bbox=left,bottom,right,top]

Quote from the wiki page ;)

XAPI is an extended api which implements a bit more than the normal api.
Perhaps there is some redundancy but I think this is not a problem.
Keeping the application compatible with older clients is a good move.

Perhaps you can add a comment to the wiki to make everything a bit more
understandable?

Regards

Philipp

On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 12:21 +0200, Stefan Keller wrote:
> Hi
> 
> In XAPI [1] what is the difference
> * between a [bbox=...] and ?bbox=...
> * and between a 'map' and a '*' request ?
> and if the represent equal requests, which one is preferred?
> 
> These examples return identical results:
> * 'map' request with bbox as URL parameter:
> http://jxapi.openstreetmap.org/xapi/api/0.6/map?bbox=34.679,32.039,34.721,32.08
> * 'all' ('*') request with bbox as 'predicate':
> http://jxapi.openstreetmap.org/xapi/api/0.6/*[bbox=34.679,32.039,34.721,32.081]
> 
> This seems redundant and reading the XAPI [1] wiki page I don't really
> see any clear distinction.
> If yes, I would suggest to deprecate the 'map' and the '?bbox=...' parameters.
> 
> Yours, S.
> 
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi
> 
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