[OSM-talk] API down?

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 18:13:45 GMT 2010


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> On 29/11/10 16:44, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Nathan Edgars II<neroute2 at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Is the API down? I can't download anything in JOSM.
>>
>> It seems to be problematic again. Downloading an area is fine, but
>> referrers take forever to download.
>
> What's a referrer and how do you download one?

When you select a single element and hit ctrl-alt-D it downloads any
ways and relations that contain said element. I don't know if there's
a special API query or if it simply downloads a small area containing
the node (or a node in the way) and extracts the referrers from there,
but I think it's the former because when you do it on a node it seems
to first get the way IDs and then get the nodes of each.

Anyway it want back to normal about 10 minutes after I posted this
message, but it happens relatively frequently. I believe there's also
slowness in downloading relation members (the opposite of getting
referrers). It's almost as though I'm being rate-limited, but
downloading referrers should use significantly less bandwidth than
downloading whole areas.



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