[OpenLayers-Users] GeoRSS and Custom Icons

[Eric Lemoine]

Oh no it's me talking about things i dont know: OSM. Eric

2008/6/29, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com>:
> 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
>