[OSM-talk] API down?

[Tom Hughes]

On 29/11/10 19:23, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> 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?

Potlatch 1 uses it's own special AMF call. Potlatch 2 uses the same XML 
based map call as everything else.

Tom

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