The map query is functionally identical to the tag query /api/0.6/*[bbox=left,bottom,right,top]
Quote from the wiki page ;) XAPI is an extended api which implements a bit more than the normal api. Perhaps there is some redundancy but I think this is not a problem. Keeping the application compatible with older clients is a good move. Perhaps you can add a comment to the wiki to make everything a bit more understandable? Regards Philipp On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 12:21 +0200, Stefan Keller wrote: > Hi > > In XAPI [1] what is the difference > * between a [bbox=...] and ?bbox=... > * and between a 'map' and a '*' request ? > and if the represent equal requests, which one is preferred? > > These examples return identical results: > * 'map' request with bbox as URL parameter: > http://jxapi.openstreetmap.org/xapi/api/0.6/map?bbox=34.679,32.039,34.721,32.08 > * 'all' ('*') request with bbox as 'predicate': > http://jxapi.openstreetmap.org/xapi/api/0.6/*[bbox=34.679,32.039,34.721,32.081] > > This seems redundant and reading the XAPI [1] wiki page I don't really > see any clear distinction. > If yes, I would suggest to deprecate the 'map' and the '?bbox=...' parameters. > > Yours, S. > > [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev