Dear all We had a review call today on the technical side of OSM and one of the things that came up was the transition to API 0.6
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6 API 0.6 is the latest and greatest in OSM APIs and brings scrummy goodness like changesets. You can read more at the wiki page. A lot of work has gone in to it from a number of people. The downside is that there needs to be some database downtime while the change happens. This means a period of time without login, editing and so on. The slippy map will of course still work. We have agreed a date of 21/22 March. During this time, and possibly for a little while after, you won't be able to log in or edit while things are upgraded. Technical questions on this should be thrown at Matt Amos and TomH. So, apologies, but hopefully this is enough advance warning for you to avoid activities around that time. From there OSM will be stronger, better, faster, longer and higher than before. Best Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk