[OSM-talk] API a lot slower?

[Maarten Deen]

On 2018-07-19 09:04, Roland Olbricht wrote:
> Hi Maarten,
> 
>> Nothing special really, I was just downloading the data from a lot of
>> relations sequentially in JOSM. I downloaded relation 1360154 with its
>> members which are bus master_relations that then also load the bus
>> relations but without their contents, and then I selected all the bus
>> relations and downloaded the members (in JOSM: select all relations 
>> and
>> do "download members").
> 
> By the way: Please consider to use "Download data > from Overpass"
> with the query
> 
> ( rel(1360154); >>; );
> out meta;
> 
> The runtime is expected to be 3 to 10 seconds, data is usually less
> than two minutes off. As a side effect, this takes load off the Main
> API.

Thanks, that is a good tip. I am in a habit of doing that when 
downloading nodes or ways with a certain k/v combination in an area, but 
haven't yet done it with relations in that way.

Regards,
Maarten