[OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

[John Smith]

--- On Wed, 19/8/09, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, ok then, 4D. And yes, in the short-term I guess the
> editor could
> download data from *all time* - but *eventually* the API
> will need to
> support this kind of bounding box including a time limit,
> because the
> length of the time dimension will grow to infinity into the
> future. I
> won't want to be fetching infinity KB of data.

Most data in historic information is very tiny areas, most of the data will be only current information.