[OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Miércoles, 13 de Mayo de 2009, Ian Dees escribió:
> [...] the point is that minutely-diffs are a minute old. At some point in 
> the future someone will want to see the data in real time as a stream.

If you can't wait *one* minute to see the data, you have a very acute case of 
OSMOCD, and you should see a psychiatrist.

> The only reason I can currently think of is because they don't want 
> to have to deal with downloading the minutely diffs and would rather read a
> stream of XML messages, applying each one to their database somehow as they
> came in.

As a wise man once said, "all problems in computer science can be solved by 
adding another indirection layer".

If you really really want a stream, I'm positive it can be hacked with a 
couple of scripts and the minutely diffs.

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Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>

Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una herramienta compleja.
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