[OSM-talk] Live API 0.6 servers (was Why is JOSM upload so slow?)

[Shaun McDonald]

On 15 Nov 2008, at 17:43, Claudius Henrichs wrote:

> Frederik Ramm:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>>> The 0.6 API wil have a bulk upload stream which can significantly
>>> reduce the overhead.
>>
>> BTW, current JOSM versions already exclusively use bulk uploading for
>> changes if the server speaks 0.6. There are a few conflict  
>> resolution/
>> error detection issues but I'm sure they'll be ironed out when 0.6  
>> goes
>> live.
>
> I read the instructions on the API 0.6 page on how to activate it, but
> one questions remains:
> Is there any API 0.6 Server yet that i can use to write into the live
> OSM DB? I could only find some test server with limited data which are
> not connected to the live system.
>

No.
As there is a significant database difference between the 0.5 and 0.6  
APIs, a full database structure migration is required, that will take  
a few days to run.

Shaun