Ian Dees wrote: > I'd like to continue this part of the thread. As was discussed by > Frederik, I think the end goal should be a real-time OSM stream of > what's getting applied to the database. Doing that in a performant way > is relatively difficult (which is why we're using Osmosis and minutely > diffs right now), but I think we should be striving for having a > realtime XML feed.
I have to say I don't see any great reason to strive for it. I don't think anybody has ever given a use case which requires such a stream and can't work with the diffs. Given that such a stream is uncacheable (and hence requires much higher bandwidth outgoing from the core servers) and much more fragile than the diffs, it is not obvious that we should put what would undoubtedly be a huge amount of effort into creating and maintaining such a system rather than into doing other things. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
