[OSM-dev] Podcast episode featuring the Overpass API
SB79
sb-listen at gmx-topmail.de
Sat Dec 29 16:01:52 GMT 2012
Hi,
if you happen to understand German, I'd like to point you to a recently
published podcast episode which features the Overpass API and its
developer, Roland Olbricht. "The Overpass API (or OSM3S) is a read-only
API that serves up custom selected parts of the OSM map data. It acts
as a database over the web: the client sends a query to the API and
gets back the data set that corresponds to the query." (*)
In this extensive interview, Roland talks about the Overpass query
language and its underlying design principles, about the OSM developer
community, and about future challenges and ideas (64 bit node IDs,
federated databases, permanent IDs, dynamical cleaning of tagging
information - to name just a few).
Link to website (including show notes and comments):
http://blog.openstreetmap.de/2012/12/osmde009-osm-talk-die-overpass-api
Direct link to audio file:
http://audio.podcast.openstreetmap.de/OSMDE009.mp3
This is a special installment of the German OSM podcast "Radio OSM". For
a list of all published episodes visit:
http://blog.openstreetmap.de/radio-osm/
(*) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API
Best,
Stephan
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