[OSM-talk] Exceeded API bandwidth limit, now what?
Mitja Kleider
mitja at kleider.name
Tue Sep 14 21:38:59 BST 2010
Michal Migurski wrote:
> I'm experimenting with a way to get at smaller areas of OSM data (generally city-sized) for a possible update to http://tiledrawer.com, and I'm hoping to understand how to both work within the API limitations and be able to piecemeal together a town-sized area without requiring end-users to deal with bzip files or osm2pgsql on their own.
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> The code I'm developing is here:
> http://github.com/migurski/TileStache/blob/osm-mirror/TileStache/Goodies/Providers/MirrorOSM.py
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> It's a provider class for Tilestache that mirrors OSM on a tile-by-tile basis.
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> Is there any interest here in publishing the OSM API via tile-like URLs? For example, being able to make a request like this to pull a chunk of bounded XML cached out of the OSM API:
> http://tile.openstreetmap.org/14/2627/6331.xml <---- note "xml" on the end
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> The advantages with this should be plainly obvious: a source of data that's trivially cacheable, on the order of hours-to-days old, and available for specific areas of the world, without the massive download and parse overhead of OSM extracts.
Besides TRAPI you might be interested in
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_data_server
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tiledata2
Mitja
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