[OSM-dev] OSM API Improvements work
Jochen Topf
jochen at remote.org
Sat Oct 13 21:00:04 BST 2012
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 03:39:52PM -0400, Tom MacWright wrote:
> TagInfo's API is certainly pretty good, and it might be good enough.
> Possibly this would be taginfo, or just a very small subset of what taginfo
> provides - my general objective is to reduce the number of apis and types
> of apis you need to understand & count on being stable in order to write an
> editor. There's more than one technical way to get there.
Taginfo has always been intended as a sort of hub to collect information on tag
usage and bring it to those who need it. It has the web UI but I had always
hoped people would also use the API to add this functionality to editors and
the like.
I encourage you to look at what the taginfo API has to offer. What is
especially interesting and what you'll never get out of the OSM API is access
to information like the tag descriptions from the Wiki.
The taginfo API and taginfo itself has been very stable for almost a year now.
I don't forsee any major changes. But if there are changes, the API contains a
version number, so we can keep backwards compatibility. Note that the taginfo
API was mostly written to support the Web UI, just because thats what was
needed, but we could certainly add special API calls or additional parameters
or so, if thats whats needed. Discussions about the details should probably
happen on the taginfo-dev list.
Jochen
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