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

[Anthony]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> select whatever from whatever where whatever LIMIT n;
>
Longer term though, there should almost surely be a tile based index.