Xappy.js

Xappy.js is a reimplementation of the OSM XAPI in node.js (Java Script). Currently using Postgres and the PostGIS extension with the option to implement other backends. For further information please take a look at the docs on github.

Code on github (also docs)

JSON output

Xappy.js offers JSON formatted output. It has been suggested that this could be a features added to other XAPI implementations

skeleton

    {
        "version": 0.6,
        "generator": "xappy.js",
        "xapi": {
             "planetDate": 201106161601,
             "copyright": "XXX"
        },
        "elements": [
            ...
            ...
            ...
        ]
    }

Where the `elements` array obviously contains all the elements. We do not order the elements into different groups, since this matches more the xml-output approch. We also heard myths that xml elements should be sorted too. But with openlayer we had no problem using unsorted xml, so we stick to it in JSON. Also there was no information on such an informal definition.

node

    { 
        "type": "node",
        "id": 3596186,
        "lat": 53.4633699598014,
        "lon": -2.22667910006381,
        "timestamp": "2007-06-21T17:10:58+01:00",
        "version": 2,
        "changeset": 2213,
        "tags": [
            "amenity": "hospital",
            "name": "Manchester Royal Infirmary"
        ]
    }

way

    {
         "type": "way",
         "id": 4958218, 
         "version": 3, 
         "timestamp": "2007-07-25T01:55:35+01:00", 
         "changeset": 2211,
         "nodes": [
             218963,
             331193
         ],
         "tags":[
             "landuse": "residential",
             "source": "landsat"
         ]
     }

relation

    {
        "type": "relation",
        "id": 2670,
        "timestamp": "2007-10-25T03:05:34Z",
        "version": 32, 
        "changeset": 2211,
        "members": [
            {
                "type":"way", 
                "ref":3992472, 
                "role": ""
            },
            {
                "type":"way", 
                "ref":3992524, 
                "role": ""
            }
        ...
      ],
        "tags":[
            "name": "Fonnereau Way",
            "network": "Ipswich foothpaths",
            "type": "route"
        ]
    }