[OSM-dev] Export: (limit is 50000).

[Dave F]

Why are you mentioning 'rendering'?

On 06/08/2019 14:36, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 06/08/2019 14:24, Dave F via dev wrote:
>
>> Is this based on server & connection speeds etc? If so has it been 
>> reviewed recently? With the increase in general computing power is 
>> there a reason this limit could not be increased?
>
> Rendering custom maps is very expensive and is not really
> a core part of our mission - we should probably never have
> added that feature really.
>
> Every time that call is used you are going direct to one
> of the render servers whose main job is to render tiles for
> the map and you're making it do a custom select from the
> database just for and then render that data.
>
> The node limit is basically about limiting the amount of
> data that has to be sucked out the database and manipulated
> to produce the result.
>
> While compute power may have increased somewhat so have the
> number of users hitting that endpoint...
>
> Tom
>