[OSM-dev] Notes - OSM improvements BoF at SOTM PDX

[Tom Hughes]

On 16/10/12 05:42, Serge Wroclawski wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
>
>> Exporting raw data was never the primary purpose of the export tab - it was
>> really added to address the constant request for the ability to export
>> images of an area.
>
> Do we have statics (web logs) that show which functionality people use?

We could do something, but it would have to be done from the rails logs 
so it would be rather complicated - because the relevant call is a POST 
we can't tell what format people asked for from the apache logs which 
would otherwise be a lot easier to parse.

>> The data export things was something I threw in because I could, and for
>> most purposes people should be looking elsewhere for raw data.
>
> I can see your concern about resources here, but is the export tab
> currently a source of problems?

Huh? I don't think I mentioned resources?

The issue isn't resources, it's about the suggestion that we somehow 
direct people to somewhere where they can download a relevant extract 
when they want a larger area.

The problem I see is, other than pointing to planet.openstreetmap.org 
I'm not sure where else we would send them?

While there are lots of other places to get things like regional 
extracts they are unofficial third party sites so I don't think that we 
should be referring people to them from the main site.

> If so, then I can see a good argument for providing something like the
> gui I made for XAPI but integrated with the OSM site (but hitting an
> xapi or overpass backend).

Well I did try and get an official tiled data server for supporting 
large area downloads some time ago but OWG didn't want to do it.

Tom

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