[OGDev] [OSM-offlist-talk] Storing extensive notes on points of interest in OSM?

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 08:30:45PM +0000, Kake L Pugh wrote:

> I don't think we have to abandon the distributed approach in order to
> do what Adam wants.  How about, we have an API where any Open Guide will
> be able to answer the following questions:
> 
> 1. What's the bounding box for all your pages?
> 2. Give me details of all your pages within a chosen bounding box.
> 
> Then we have a central service which asks each guide question 1 every so
> often and caches the result.  When someone asks this central service to
> find all OpenGuides pages within a given bounding box, it uses this cached
> result to figure out which guides it needs to contact and ask question 2 of.
> 
> Does that fit in with what Adam wants his app to do?
> 
> The central service will of course need to have a list of the active
> guides, but I don't see this as a great hardship.

This is pretty much exactly how I envisaged a central portal service
working.

Dominic.

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