Hi everybody First post here .... and a few questions to ask :-) As I did not find clear replies to those questions, I ask them here. Sorry if they have already been replied earlier and I missed it ...
So .... I am building an application that needs to access osm poi database. Ex : Extract all the banks (or any orther amenity) of a given area. I didn't find this possibility (amenity filtering) in basic API but only in xapi 1/ is there any other possibility instead of xapi to do that ? 2/ the problem with xapi is that servers are quite always down or overloaded or i don't know what ! at least not reliable. Does anybody know if it is a temporary problem and should be fixed some day ? And what is the problem exactly ? 3/ i read in newsletter recent archive that some people were considering hosting their own xapi server and even rewriting xapi itself. Wouldn't it be much easier to add xapi features to basic api ? And actually, I am just wondering why it has not been done already. Is it on purpose ? or a technical reason ? or just nobody had the time to do it ? 4/ rewriting xapi ? Why not, if i can help... (i know c, sql ...). But hosting my own server would be really much more complicate (money, bandwidth ....) What other solution do I have to clear my problem ? Thanks for your replies .... Pich _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
