[OSM-talk] Why I don't use JOSM (was Re: Non-map-based OSM editor)

[Anthony]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> No, seriously, it would be great if someone found a way to modify the API
> (more precisely, the cgimap program) so that it accepts requests for larger
> bounding boxes in sparsely mapped areas. It is probably not easy to do this
> in a performant manner though, as by the time you have found out that the
> area that was requested contains a million nodes, you have already spent a
> lot of time slowing down the database - maybe one would have to have a
> special mapping density index for various regions of the planet.

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