[Taginfo-dev] XAPI

[Jochen Topf]

Hi!

Ok, first problem for the new mailing list: How to handle XAPI buttons.

Currently the XAPI and JOSM buttons are hardcoded to the XAPI server at
informationfreeway.org which is supposed to forward to a working instance of
the XAPI but doesn't. Or maybe there just is no working instance any more.

Some of you have changed this to use a JAXPI server. I tried the OSMF JXAPI
server but that was horrendously slow. And I don't want to use the Mapquest
server when I can avoid it, because I don't want Taginfo to be dependent on
a non-community server.

Another problem is that http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/XAPI says to the
JXAPI servers: "relations not fully supported" whatever that means. I don't
want to link to something that can't work.

I have already been getting user complaints about this, so some solution would
be nice.

This is a wider problem and has been for a long time. Lots of people depend on
the XAPI and the many problems with it have been really frustrating. I don't
think we can provide the perfect solution. But I guess we have to do something.

One option would be to let the user decide. Give him a drip-down menu or
something to choose which server she wants. But that requires coding and makes
the UI more complex.

We could also just write out the query string and users can cut-and-paste it
together with their favourite server URL. Thats quite ugly and complicated for
the user. But easy to implement for us.

Ideas?

Jochen
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