[OSM-talk] API 0.3 deployed

[Andy Robinson]

SteveC wrote:
>Sent: 13 March 2006 15:59
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] API 0.3 deployed
>
>Hello
>
>API 0.3 is now live, and 0.2 is there too. 0.2 will be phased out within
>a few weeks and is only there to allow editor authors to catch up with
>the new API.
>
>0.3 supports things like:
>
>'ways' - ordered lists of segments to make streets etc
>'areas' -  same as above but makes things like buildings and lakes
>history - you can now get the history for every object, complete or
>          bounded by some time frame you want
>map-at - you can ask for map data as it was at some point in the past,
>         eg the map api now accepts a time field
>gzip - everything is now gzip-encoded if your http client asks for it,
>       not just the map api
>tags - the server now treats tags 'properly'. That is, they have their
>       special XML (so no more arbitrary string). In the database they
>       are still a string for nodes and segments. For ways and areas
>       the tags have their own proper table. The nodes/seg schema
>       will be updated to this in api 0.4, however as far as a client is
>       concerned the XML is the same across the board.
>id     No more 'uid' in any XML
>new    No more newnode and newsegment, they're rolled in to the mail
>       object requests.
>
>The applet has been updated to point at the new API and handle the new
>XML and includes all of imi's updates. It currently does not support
>ways and areas.
>
>There is documentation of all this on the wiki REST page.
>
>Undoubtedly there will be bugs, please mail the dev list with them.
>
>One request that didn't make it was a 'changed since' api to get data
>since the last map request. Expect this with API 0.4, and please throw
>any 0.4 requests on the REST wiki page... I doubt it'll take as long to
>get to 0.4 as it did from 0.2 to 0.3.
>
>have fun,
>
>SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
>
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Nice one Steve et al :)
<<throws a new dollop of grease on the 0.1 to 1.0 rack and pinion gear>>

Andy