-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom Hughes wrote: > Guilhem Bonnefille wrote: > >> I'm working on Viking[1], a GPS desktop application with OSM related >> features. >> >> In order to assist user when uploading its traces to OSM, I wish to >> contact OSM, retrieve the previously used tags, and propose these tags >> to the user for the new trace. >> >> Is there such API actually? > > No, and I don't think one would be practical. To start with we don't > currently normalise the tags at all so there is lots of duplication in > the tag table - the only way to get a list of tags is to select distinct > on the tag column. > > Scale wise we have about 250,000 tag records currently, and even if you > remove the duplicates there are about 40,000 or so. I don't think people > are going to want to download 40,000 tags even if we wanted to let them.
Any chance of a report of the most popular tags, or would it lock up the database for ages just to query them? Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAki4KgQACgkQz+aYVHdncI27QgCgyRJcAiCYhP3su6p0AKNDIQS+ FfoAnjRUEUenXO6LPhqPJc8119Z3WWyp =SwkM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
