[OSM-dev] OSM API lookups to complement minutely diffs?

[Paul Norman]

On 9/15/2016 1:53 PM, Stefan Keller wrote:
> Is it OK to do API lookups like this
> https://www.osm.org/api/0.6/nodes?nodes=59906080,4400821613  even for
> minutely diffs? Any alternatives?

No, particularly if your code takes off and multiple people start 
running it. I would guess that it would hit rate limits and be 
automatically blocked.

If all you need is node positions this can be done fairly efficiently 
for the entire planet with something like osm2pgsql flat-nodes. If you 
need full information this takes more space. But you should consider if 
you're just rebuilding augmented diffs.