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

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Wed May 13 17:15:48 BST 2009


Ian Dees wrote:

> The whole argument I'm making is that after the initial 
> implementation**, streaming the data is a lot less resource intensive 
> than what we are currently doing. Perhaps I don't have the whole picture 
> of what goes on in the backend, but at some point the changeset XML 
> files are applied to the database. At this point, we already have the 
> XML changeset that was created by the client. The stream would simply be 
> mirroring that out to anyone listening over a compressed HTTP channel.

You don't want Potlatch's changes then? or changes made by changing 
individual objects rather than uploading diffs?

Tom

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