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

[Stefan Keller]

2016-09-16 5:59 GMT+02:00 Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com>:
> 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.

Got that - though the pub-sub messaging system in fact could cache the
data thus taking over the load from subscribers.
I'll try augmented diffs.

:Stefan

2016-09-16 5:59 GMT+02:00 Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com>:
> 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.
>
>
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