[Tilesathome] API 0.6 migration

[80n]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:40 PM, <a_a at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> as the API 0.6 is on the air now I'd like to bring up T at H migration to
> 0.6:
> As far as I can see T at H with 0.5 is still working, but has some
> disadvantages:
> - the only leftover 0.5 data source is XAPI with
>   http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/*[bbox=<http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/*%5Bbbox=>
> <BBOX>]
> - the data is outdated (i.e. no new 0.6 changes get there)
>
> The migration would maily be just to set "OSMVersion" to "0.6" in
> "general.conf": I've already tried this and it worked properly. Running
> the client in 0.6 version there's only a warning from area-center
> "Expected version 0.5 but received 0.6.", but that can be ignored
> momentarily.
> The disadvantage of a migration to 0.6 _now_ would be in my point of
> view that at the moment the main API server would be the only
> (realtively slow) data source, because as far as I can see XAPI and ROMA
> are _not_ migrated to 0.6 yet (mainly because the minute planet diffs
> are not yet available and bretth is sleeping right now).
> So I'd opt for staying at 0.5 for at least another day.
>
> XAPI is 0.6 ready and will begin serving data at /api/0.6 not long after
the 0.6 minute diffs come on line.

/api/0.5 will continue to serve data as at the 0.5 closedown, until everyone
migrates their clients to 0.6.

80n
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