[OSM-talk] Updated Geofabrik Download Server

[hbogner]

On 03/12/2013 10:30 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> I'm working on adding statistics to the site as well.

Nice, it would be nice to see what sort of traffic you make.

> As for the OSMF-managed infrastructure, I'm a friend of keeping it
> small. What I would love is for the export tab to provide some sort of
> mechanism whereby various providers of extracts or derived data could
> plug themselves in and announce their goods. So if someone zooms to
> Washington DC and clicks on "export", they would see a list of available
> files in various formats from various providers and could choose which
> one to download. For a very small area you'd see "direct API download",
> for a larger area maybe "Overpass API download", and even larger areas
> would lead you to a pre-computed extract and so on.
>
> That would keep maintenance down on the central infrastructure and
> create a marketplace for derived data (a market where IMHO the currency
> is attention, not money - even though it would even be thinkable in the
> long run to allow providers of pay-per-use services onto the platform if
> they give a cut to OSMF).
>
> Having said that, if OSMF were to decide to run an extract service
> themselves and use the same technology that I use for the Geofabrik
> service (all open source plus a couple glue scripts) then I wouldn't
> stand in their way!

Nice idea about export tab to provide links to extracts.