Ian Dees wrote: >> I don't think anybody has ever given a use case which requires such >> a stream and can't work with the diffs. > > > I agree, but the point is that minutely-diffs are a minute old. At some > point in the future someone will want to see the data in real time as a > stream. The only reason I can currently think of is because they don't > want to have to deal with downloading the minutely diffs and would > rather read a stream of XML messages, applying each one to their > database somehow as they came in.
The updates to the database aren't records of real-time, real-world events; They're just mappers updating parts of the map. Anything which analyses that, rather than the data itself as a whole is just navel-gazing. It tells you something about the project, but not the world it's mapping. You're not missing out on anything by having minute-old data. We're not recording how the world is changing, we're just making our map more accurate. As for wanting updates in a different format: Patches Welcome. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk