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

[spaetz]

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.