[Geocoding] Local Mirror of OSM Data...
Tom Hughes
tom at compton.nu
Fri Oct 23 18:08:28 BST 2009
On 23/10/09 17:47, Anthony wrote:
> Well, I am an editor. And I'm not sure if the ways I'm using it
> qualify as "bulk usage". I've been using it to, for instance,
> download all the changesets made by *me*. AFAIK there's no reasonable
> way to do that without using the API.
I wasn't entirely clear on what you were planning, but it sounded like
you were planning to update your database by querying the API for each
object in your database? If that isn't what you're planning then fine
but if it is and your database is likely to have a significant amount of
data in it then I think it may be a problem.
> If you have a better suggestion, feel free to suggest it. Or if you
> can point me to a policy which forbids what I'm doing, I'll be happy
> to stop contributing to OSM.
The policy is, broadly speaking, that if you put sufficient load on the
api that is causes a problem and comes to my attention then you're
likely to find yourself blocked. That is especially so if it looks you
are crawling the data in some way.
The point basically is that the API is designed to provide small chunks
of data and people that want larger chunks of data are encouraged to use
planet instead.
Tom
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