[Taginfo-dev] XAPI

[Sarah Hoffmann]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 07:59:34AM -0500, Ian Dees wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:49 AM, David Paleino <d.paleino at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:22:28 +0200, Jochen Topf wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > +1
> >
> 
> MapQuest is part of the community. You should be at least as comfortable
> relying on it as you would on jxapi.osm.org.

I agree, I don't see any reason to be political there. Mapquest is
as good or bad as, for example, the Geofabrik services. And as far
as I know there are no strings attached to using it. Most people who
use the XAPI-Links are mostly interested in getting up-to-date data
fast. The few that do care where their request goes, will be able to
copy the link and change it accordingly.

NB, I think I have read somewhere that requests to jxapi.osm.org are
load-balanced towards the Mapquest servers anyways. But maybe I
remember wrongly.

> > I'm CCing Ian to understand this. Ian, could you please explain what's
> > exactly
> > "not supported" about relations? Any chance to fix this? Is the source
> > available
> > anywhere? (in case someone feels brave enough to try and provide a patch)
> >
> 
> Source is here: https://github.com/iandees/xapi-servlet
> 
> Relations are supported but will not respond to bounding-box predicates. If
> you ask for a relation inside a bounding box with tag type=route you'll end
> up with all route relations in the world.

Perfectly fine for Taginfo as it does not use the bbox feature.

I don't really see a point in spending lots of development time for
a service that is basically dead. So, for me simply switching to JXAPI
will do.

Sarah