[OSM-talk] announcing new OSB service

[Inge Wallin]

On Sunday 10 May 2009 23:20:44 Mitja Kleider wrote:
> 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!

Nice, but there seems to be a problem with UTF-8 encoding.  Check the area 
around 
http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/?zoom=13&lat=58.39771&lon=15.64477&layers=B00T 
and see if you can see the errors.

	-Inge

> 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
>
>
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