[OSM-talk] Good use of time ...

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2013/12/2 Ed Loach <edloach at gmail.com>

>
> > I
> > ask again - what is 'export' intended to do?
>
> Have you tried it? I just have and it lets me select an area then
> exports that area as OSM .osm XML format. I'm guessing there are
> similar limits to downloading areas as there are in JOSM but haven't
> tried it (I zoomed in on a single feature for testing). So, as far
> as I can tell the same as Export did before the site change at the
> weekend.



It is somehow a nice statement to see that you can actually get the data
"back"/"out", but it doesn't work at all in this form, there really should
be at least an additional link explaining a bit more and offering a list of
services where you can actually get more and all data (i.e. planet.osm.org,
geofabrik, metroextracts, coastlines, overpass, torrent, etc. (if those are
fine with being mentioned prominently there)).

Also it was said that our main API was for editing purposes only, how does
that relate to an export function like this?

cheers,
Martin
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