Oh no it's me talking about things i dont know: OSM. Eric
2008/6/29, Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 03:54:48PM +0200, Eric Lemoine wrote: >> Current HTTP Protocol does CRUD through HTTP POST, GET, PUT, DELETE. >> It should be generic enough for implementing Protocol.FeatureServer >> and Protocol.OSM based upon it. > > Er, I don't think this is likely to be true. > > FeatureServer/MapFish use a protocol where you post an entire feature to > the server, and it saves that feature. > > OSM uses a topological model, so editing is different: you don't edit > linestrings, you edit individual nodes along them. So, although OSM is > RESTful, the objects are lower level: a FeatureServer-friendly HTTP > protocol and an OSM-friendly one would be significantly different. > > Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, as per usual :) But it seems > unlikely that OSM + FeatureServer protocols could share much code in > terms of writing; only reading would be sanely sharable, I think. > > Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users