[Tilesathome] setting up the api was: [OSM-dev] t at h API still turn off...

Florian Lohoff flo at rfc822.org
Mon Sep 1 10:56:41 BST 2008


On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 11:11:07AM +0200, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Tilesathome] setting up the api was: [OSM-dev] t at h API still
>  turn	off...
> 
> Florian Lohoff wrote:
> 
> >Okay - import done and osmosis is keeping it up to date with the minute
> >diffs - currently the offset is roughly 5 minutes it seems.
> 
> >Most likely 90% of the whole rails stuff would not be needed for
> >only a read only api e.g. session tracking, logins, friends whatever.
> 
> I think ruby is not the best of all choices for this anyway as it seems 
> to not be able to stream XML but actually stores everything in RAM 
> first. Which is bad for complex tilesets.

So - whats the solution? Standalone python/perl/C xml map api cgi? Is
there anything one can start from or is it a complete dev from scratch?

Flo
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