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

[Ian Dees]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> On 16/10/12 16:40, Tom MacWright wrote:
>
>>  > The problem I see is, other than pointing to planet.openstreetmap.org
>> <http://planet.openstreetmap.**org/ <http://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.
>>>
>>
>> I think pointing people to jXAPI could work, or one thing. And, the
>> whole 'unofficial third party sources' bit isn't that strong;
>> planet.osm.org <http://planet.osm.org> points to third-party sources,
>> and so does the wiki.
>>
>
> Well when jxapi.osm.org is stable then maybe we would, though I'm not
> entirely clear if this is really what it is designed for or how likely it
> would be to stand lots of large area downloads.
>

It was indeed designed to handle larger areas like this, but I think it
might be more interesting to restart the thread about cached, tiled data
again to make these large area queries faster.
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