[OSM-talk] API down?

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 19:23:32 GMT 2010


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> The only call which is rate limited at the moment is the map call which
> means that it is now quite hard for one person to soak up all the resources
> and delay other people's map requests.
>
> Other calls are not rate limited so if somebody suddenly hits us with a big
> burst of requests it can cause delays for other people - it doesn't actually
> have to be the same type of request, just something else that is handled in
> the same queue.

Ah, thanks for the information. Which type of call does Potlatch use
when loading an area?



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