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

[Tom Hughes]

Bernhard zwischenbrugger wrote:

> To put OSM data live to xmpp ist very simple and I don't think it's 
> expensive.
> 
> An easy way would be to post it to a xmpp groupchat:
> 
> <message type="groupchat" to="osmlive at conference.thejabberserver.org/bot">
> <osm>geodata here</osm>
> </message>
> 
> After login it's just a copy to a tcp socket port 5222.
> Everybody who wants the data can log into the groupchat and gets all the 
> new data.
> Jabber Servers can handle the load without problem (not sure about that 
> ) and maybe its possible to use an existing jabber server like 
> jabber.org, jabber.ru,....

Yes and then as soon your client disconnects for a second you've lost a 
ton of edits and you have no way to resync.

Tom

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