[OSM-talk] API misuse at Flickr, WAS: Id stability

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2011/8/1 Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com>:
> Flickr does this too, by the way:
> http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/09/28/thats-maybe-a-bit-too-dorky-even-for-us/


according to this blog entry from 2009 Flickr is using the main API to
get tag information of OSM objects. Isn't this a misuse of the API
which should be reserved to mapping activity? Not sure about the
technical details of osm integration in Flickr and whether they are
really using the API and not the XAPI, but if they use the API they
should be encouraged to switch to one of the XAPIs or mirror the osm
data themselves.

cheers,
Martin