Frederik Ramm <frederik <at> remote.org> writes: > The OSM server *is* using only HTTP. > > > The advantages are: > > - There are a lot of fast HTTP mirrors > > - The OSM server is quite busy and not reliable for large requests > > Are you aware of Xapi, ROMA, and Trapi? Trapi, especially, stores OSM > data snippets in a tiled manner in the file system and can thus serve > data for specific tiles very quickly. See the appropriate Wiki pages. > Xapi is written in M, ROMA and Trapi are written in Perl. > > Bye > Frederik
Frederik, Thanks for your quick reply, I didn't know the existence of Trapi, it shares a lot of my ideas. But it doesn't scale as well (with loads of small files) and still requires 8 GB disk usage. But I'm sure I can learn something from Trapi :-) I'm sorry my post wasn't really clear about what a meant with HTTP OSM Server, it's HTTP -only- without -any- server side scripting. All planet-osm.bz2 mirrors will be capable to host my API :-) Dick _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
