[OSM-talk] bounding box requests, and failures

[Paul Fox]

i wrote:
 >     - would it be possible for the "Bad Request" message to be a
 > 	little more informative?  (e.g. "Node limit of NN exceeded", or
 > 	"Area bigger than NN by NN degrees")

whoops.  i missed the part on the wiki where it describes the
"Error:" header, and if i add "--server-response" to my wget request,
i do indeed get explanatory messages.

 > 
 >     - can anyone explain why the first request worked, given the lon/lat
 > 	limit?

armed with the better diagnostics available in the Error: 
header, i've done some probing and it seems that the actual limit
(for longitude, at least) is closer to .73 degrees, though the
message says 0.25.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 38.8 degrees)