[OSM-talk] 500 errors

[Håkon Enger]

Hello,

Downloading some areas always gives me 500 errors. At first I just thought 
the server was down as usual, but now I think it consistently happens when 
downloading a particular region (persumably containing a bad 
node/segment/way of some kind). E.g.,

$wget 'http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.4/map?bbox=10.775747131544621,59.953191911684364,10.776868878128443,59.953676962981895'
--09:09:16-- 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.4/map?bbox=10.775747131544621,59.953191911684364,10.776868878128443,59.953676962981895
            => 
`map?bbox=10.775747131544621,59.953191911684364,10.776868878128443,59.953676962981895'
Resolving www.openstreetmap.org... done.
Connecting to www.openstreetmap.org[128.40.58.202]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error
09:09:16 ERROR 500: Internal Server Error.

The error message I get if I paste this URL into Firefox is

Application error
Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like 
in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html

How can I debug this? Do I need direct access to the database to figure 
out what is going on?

   Håkon