[OSM-talk] The OSM Applet - let's ditch it for JOSM (was: Mapping Reading, some impressions)

[SteveC]

* @ 05/09/06 11:14:05 AM tom at tom-carden.co.uk wrote:
> On 05/09/06, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> > Mikel wrote:
> >
> > > One advantage to the applet is that it display everyone's collected
> > > GPS traces. (When the tile server is responsive of course)
> >
> > Agreed. Since you can get GPS traces from the API anyway (and,
> > inevitably, the Flash editor has its own private API for speed) it
> > needn't be dependent on tile.
> >
> 
> Just a heads up: the applet used to do this, and it was unworkable.
> You're relying on the API being able to feed you manageable chunks of
> GPS data... something I'm not sure it can do efficiently.  That's why
> we went for cached images of GPS data instead - all those images are
> slow to generate and fetch, but they can be reused.  Of course, if the
> API provides GPS, it would be nice to do it per person, and most
> recent first, and perhaps think about how it could relate to the
> public traces (will those have an API too?).

the problem I had wasnt the reliability of the api or even the speed
necessarily, its that applets are allocated a certain small amount of
memory and it literally couldn't hold an array of doubles beyond some
number

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/