[OSM-talk] About the development of another Overpass API

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Tue Jan 26 07:08:21 UTC 2016


On 26/01/16 06:36, Dongpo Deng wrote:

> Last year, NCHC[1] started to host a caching server 'Longma' [2] for
> serving Asia. They are now working on development of an instance of
> Overpass API in Asia. To fetch data from OSM API, we're just wondering
> which OSM APIs are available for this?

Overpass doesn't fetch data from any API so your question doesn't really 
make any sense.

It works by using the diffs to maintain it's own database and then 
provides an API based on that database.

Tom

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