OSM upgrade (server+api)

[Danny Backx]

This is slightly off topic, apologies for that. See the announcement
below.

A quick grep in the RoadMap sources reveals at least one place where the
old API is used :

php/osmgetbmap:$path = "/api/0.5/map";
php/osmgetbmap.php:$path = "/api/0.5/map";

I'm not very familiar with this stuff. I assume it has to change ?

The status of this method (in the 0.6 API) is less stable than many of
the others, see
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6

        Danny



Subject: [OSM-talk] IMPORTANT - OSM API upgrade - Read Only access mode
from 09:00 UTC Fri 17th April
Date: Thursday 16 April 2009
From: "Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\)" <ajrlists@...>
To: talk@...

Dear OpenStreetMap Users,

This weekend sees the long awaited upgrade of our main API from version
API 0.5 to API 0.6. This is a major development for the project and
involves upgrades to both the hardware platform (the main OSM database)
as well as the software that we all use to communicate with it.

In order to migrate the existing OSM database to the new server and
software platform it is necessary to lock the OSM database to Read Only
access, that means you will not be able to upload your new map edits to
OSM once the current API is in read only mode.

Read only access will commence at 09:00 UTC Friday 17th April 2009 and
is expected to last throughout the API upgrade period.

Completion of the API upgrade and database migration is scheduled for
some time on Monday April 20th, however the exact time will depend upon
how well progress goes over the weekend. It is also highly likely that
there will be periods of total API downtime during the weekend as the
upgrade is progressed.

The front page of the wiki will be your best place to keep an eye on the
current status, or hang out in IRC at #OSM for hour by hour news, but
please keep your questions to a minimum as our sysadmins team will be
busy! Concrete news updates, when they are available, will be
published.

The technical working group and the full API 0.6 development team have
worked long and hard to deliver this exciting new upgrade to the OSM
platform. I am sure you will wish to join me in thanking them all for
their efforts and contribution to date and wish them the very best with
the work over this weekend.

For more information about the changes please see the following wiki
page:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6/Information


Translation....

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For and on behalf of the OpenStreetMap Foundation Board

Andy Robinson
Secretary
OpenStreetMap Foundation
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[Paul Fox-3]

danny wrote:
 > This is slightly off topic, apologies for that. See the announcement
 > below.

thanks for forwarding.  i saw it too, but hadn't looked into it.

 >
 > A quick grep in the RoadMap sources reveals at least one place where the
 > old API is used :
 >
 > php/osmgetbmap:$path = "/api/0.5/map";
 > php/osmgetbmap.php:$path = "/api/0.5/map";
 >
 > I'm not very familiar with this stuff. I assume it has to change ?

i don't think so -- at least, not right away.  of course, i'm assuming the old
api will be supported for a while during a transition period.  looking
at the announcement, it wasn't clear what was going to actually change
that would affect us.  i guess there will be more info available on
the website.  ah -- here:  "Clients which only download data for
further processing do not need to do anything, unless they wish
to use the newly available information somehow."  so i think we're safe,
for now.  once you get the editor working, and we want to upload new
roads, that will change of course.  ;-)

paul

 >
 > The status of this method (in the 0.6 API) is less stable than many of
 > the others, see
 > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6
 >
 > Danny
 >

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