[OSM-talk] bounding box requests, and failures

[Paul Fox]

dave wrote:
 > The wiki is slightly wrong. The API prevents you downloading more than
 > 0.25 *square* degrees. That's a 0.5x0.5 degree box, or a 1x0.25
 > rectangle etc.
 > You're requesting a 0.35 x 0.35 degree area, and my maths makes
 > 0.35x0.35 = 0.1225 square degrees which is smaller than < 0.25, hence
 > they're allowed.

gotcha.  that explains why i saw a longitude limit of about 0.73.  i
was leaving the latitudes constant, at the original 0.35, and 0.35 times
0.73 is roughly 0.25.

it all makes sense now.

 > In either instance the error message is contained within the reply
 > http header "Error", and is actually quite verbose. Adding "-S" to

yes, i found that.  should have occurred to me.

thanks!
paul
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 paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 38.5 degrees)