[OSM-dev] JSON-output for xapi

[Ian Dees]

I'm not sure it's specified anywhere, but it is customary (and many tools
expect) to receive a sorted OSM file: nodes first, followed by ways,
followed by relations. This makes constructing an in-memory model of the
data easier on the client side.

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Dario Brandes <dalino at spline.de> wrote:

> hi matt,
>
> the main difference between our solutions is that you sort the data in
> category's (nodes, ways, relations). We have only one list, in
> which this elements are unsorted. This asynchronism is necessary to
> keep our good server performance, because the output-module does not
> have to await for all the data. It can start the output stream before.
> What's your point of view? Do you really need this type of sorting?
>
> I hope we can find a solution, to make all happy :)
>
> Regards Dario
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:22:54 +0100
> Matt Amos <zerebubuth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > hi dario,
> >
> > there's experimental support in cgimap for JSON format, which will
> > hopefully get enabled at 0.7 time (whenever that is). i've attached an
> > example of the output in both JSON and XML for comparison. it looks
> > extremely similar to the examples you've included below, so hopefully
> > we can work together on this. :-)
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > matt
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Dario Brandes <dalino at spline.de>
> > wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > we from the xappy.js Team want talk with you about a JSON Standard
> > > for osm. The GeoJSON Format is inapt to safe relations and so we
> > > created something new.
> > > Here the link to our wikipage:
> > > https://github.com/slomo/osm-spline-xapi/wiki/JSON-Output
> > >
> > > We would like to hear your comments about our proposal.
> > >
> > > Regards Dario
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > # JSON output format definition by example.
> > >
> > > **Note:** for simple reading we included whitespaces which are of
> > > course omitted in the actual implementation.
> > >
> > > ## skeleton
> > >    {
> > >        "version": 0.6,
> > >        "generator": "xappy.js",
> > >        "xapi": {
> > >             "uri": "XXX",
> > >             "planetDate": 201106161601,
> > >             "copyright": "XXX",
> > >             "instance": "XXX"
> > >         },
> > >        "elements": [
> > >            ...
> > >            ...
> > >            ...
> > >        ]
> > >    }
> > >
> > > where the `elements` array obviously contains all the elements.
> > >
> > > ## node
> > >    {
> > >        "type": "node",
> > >        "id": 3596186,
> > >        "lat": 53.4633699598014,
> > >        "lon": -2.22667910006381,
> > >        "timestamp": "2007-06-21T17:10:58+01:00",
> > >        "version": 2,
> > >        "changeset": 2213,
> > >        "tags": [
> > >            "amenity": "hospital",
> > >            "name": "Manchester Royal Infirmary"
> > >        ]
> > >    }
> > >
> > > ## way
> > >    {
> > >         "type": "way",
> > >         "id": 4958218,
> > >         "version": 3,
> > >         "timestamp": "2007-07-25T01:55:35+01:00",
> > >         "changeset": 2211,
> > >         "nodes": [
> > >             218963,
> > >             331193
> > >         ],
> > >         "tags":[
> > >             "landuse": "residential",
> > >             "source": "landsat"
> > >         ]
> > >     }
> > >
> > > ## relation
> > >    {
> > >        "type": "relation",
> > >        "id": 2670,
> > >        "timestamp": "2007-10-25T03:05:34Z",
> > >        "version": 32,
> > >        "changeset": 2211,
> > >        "members": [
> > >            {
> > >                "type":"way",
> > >                "ref":3992472,
> > >                "role": ""
> > >            },
> > >            {
> > >                "type":"way",
> > >                "ref":3992524,
> > >            ],
> > >        "tags":[
> > >            "name": "Fonnereau Way",
> > >            "network": "Ipswich foothpaths",
> > >            "type": "route"
> > >        ]
> > >    }
> > >
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