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| ====== OpenStreetMap and Nominatim ====== | ====== OpenStreetMap and Nominatim ====== | ||
| - | As Badgers relies on a political structure of the world to determine [[rules:regions|regions]], we rely on [[https://www.openstreetmap.org/|OpenStreetmap data]] via the [[https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/|Nominatim Services]]. | + | As Badgers relies on a political structure of the world to determine [[rules:regions|played regions]], we rely on [[https://www.openstreetmap.org/|OpenStreetmap data]] via the [[https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/|Nominatim Services]]. |
| This is a **great** free and public service and another sample what open source and crowd sourcing can accomplish. We consume their service but we make sure to play fair, i.e. throttle request frequency, cache the retrieved results etc. Beyond the requirements they state, we also shift of our badged update requests preferably to less busy times like (European) night and weekend. | This is a **great** free and public service and another sample what open source and crowd sourcing can accomplish. We consume their service but we make sure to play fair, i.e. throttle request frequency, cache the retrieved results etc. Beyond the requirements they state, we also shift of our badged update requests preferably to less busy times like (European) night and weekend. | ||