alrocar/POIProxy — Issue #16: Create a proxy for OSM features
Author: jsanz
Created: 2011-11-15 09:29:21+00:00
State: open

I'm thinking about a new small pet project that should need to retrieve data from OSM database using XAPI as JSONP. The idea is to proxy servers listed [here](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi#Servers) (taking care of license terms, I'll check if issue is accepted).

The service will receive an id of a node or way and responds with the tags and important metadata stored at OSM database. Some examples:

- http://open.mapquestapi.com/xapi/api/0.6/node/197384403
- http://open.mapquestapi.com/xapi/api/0.6/way/5007139

The service thus would receive something like http://proxy/osm/node/198384403 or http://proxy/osm/way/5007139 and responds with version, user, changeset and a dictionary of tags.

Sounds sensible?