[OSM-talk] Something wrong with OSM server?

[Nick Hill]

Andy has it spot-on.

As a stop gap, we need to immediately limit the number of nodes returned. We can 
also increase the API memory to increase the query size it can handle.

Steve- Given this is urgent, should we apply the change to the existing API or 
Rails?

We can also look at alternative mechanisms to return large queries asynchronously.

Andy Robinson wrote:

> I think what Nick is saying is that there has always been a limit on the
> size of the bounding box that you can request from the database. JOSM for
> instance doesn't know what that limit is but if it's too big you get a reset
> response from the server and nothing delivered to JOSM. This restriction is
> there to stop anyone trying to download the whole planet and therefore
> hogging all the resource.

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