[OSM-talk] announcing new OSB service

[Mitja Kleider]

Hello,

after having some trouble with the precision and number of bugs returned by 
OpenStreetBugs [1] I contacted the author (Xav). He agreed that it needed to 
be rewritten. I already tried some code which was used for testing purposes 
only [2].
I continued developing that code in a public repository. I also added scripts 
to dump the Appspot database (based on Xav's dump method).

The new service is now running on a sponsored test server [3]. Appspot data is 
imported once a day. I also sent a patch to Xav to proxy the new database on 
Appspot for a smooth transition to the new service.

I hope that this patch will be applied soon. Xavier was afraid of Javascript 
slowness now where each request returns 100 bugs. Can anyone confirm that this 
is a problem? This number could still be changed.

I think it would be nice if the service was using the domain 
openstreetbugs.org (easy to remember).
Currently it is available at http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/

If you like to use the service in JOSM you can change the settings from 
http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/* to 
http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/api/0.1/*

You find some statistics, daily database dumps and various links at the "more" 
link on the new website. Some details are also documented in the wiki [4].

One last thing: my goal was to get better query results and more access to the 
data. I do not intend to spend a lot of time on developing this service. You 
are always welcome to send patches, maybe it is also possible to share access 
to the repository. And in the worst case: forking is easy.

I hope you enjoy the new OpenStreetBugs!

Greetings,
Mitja

[1] http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/
[2] http://www.b3e.net/openstreetbugs.html
[3] http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/
[4] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Emka/new_OSB