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

[Ian Dees]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
The JXAPI implements all of the read-only API endpoints so that (if someone
wrote it) a client could support spreading load across multiple (X)API
servers. The *[bbox...] query is just one of the many queries you can make
with the XAPI syntax. They should return the same data.
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