[OSM-talk] List of changes from API only gives target tile of moved node

[Matt Amos]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Andre Hinrichs wrote:
>> Anyway, if not many services use it (except T at H) it would not create a
>> high load on the server, so why drop it?
>
> I think it is certainly an "odd one out" among the API calls; no other
> API call concerns itself with tile numbers of a spherical Mercator
> projection.

it seems like something that trapi [1] could calculate more
effectively than the main API, given that trapi must know which data
tiles have been updated with each diff.

cheers,

matt

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Trapi