[OSM-newbies] downloading data

[Andy Allan]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Robert Helvie <alimamo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Don't know if this is a JOSM or an API question, but I am new, so I'll post
> it here. :-)
> How are the downloads actually qualified when downloading data through JOSM?

There are two limits in place:

# The maximum area you're allowed to request, in square degrees
max_request_area: 0.25
# Maximum number of nodes that will be returned by the api in a map request
max_number_of_nodes: 50000

So perhaps some of your old areas have more than 50,000 nodes in them
now, especially as you say that there was a large POI import recently.

Cheers,
Andy