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Welcome to the osm-spline-xapi wiki!

Literature

• javascript
• "JavaScript: The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford
• "JavaScript: The Good Parts" Talk [Video] << beware this is not a book...
• Databases
• "Spatial Databases: With application to GIS

Code Conventions

• Code Conventions by Crockford
• Code Conventions by Google
• Use JSLint before commiting code
• http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/
• For documenation: JSDoc

Most important Code Conventions

extend this with frequently used erros.

• use 4 spaces for indentation instead of tabs

• VIM-users want to use this modeline (put this on the last line of your .js-files):

• // vim:set ts=4 sw=4 expandtab:

• JSLint vim plugin

Links

• test-driven development
• introduction on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSOvpOxbe08
• test framework https://github.com/bentomas/node-async-testing
• node.js
• node.js website http://nodejs.org/
• chaosradio podcast http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre167.html
• git
• website http://git-scm.com/
• official tutorial http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html
• Database
• Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/
• Postgis: http://postgis.refractions.net/
• some notes on db stuff: http://pad.spline.de/osmdatabase
• database schemata http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/osmosis/trunk/package/script/
• data import (osmosis) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis
• nice blog post http://ksmapper.blogspot.com/2011/04/parse-planet-into-pgsnapshot-database.html
• osm/xapi
• XAPI definition http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi
• XAPI 0.6 (current version) specification http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6
• osm data primitives http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data_Primitives
• osm elements http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Elements
• JSON
• http://www.json.org/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP
• http://geojson.org/
• JXAPI implemenation (see code for documentation?)
• XML
• libxml2 http://xmlsoft.org/
• libxmljs https://github.com/polotek/libxmljs
• xmlbuilder https://github.com/oozcitak/xmlbuilder-js
• Communication
• Mailinglist: https://lists.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/xapi
• IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#spline

Databases

• xapi_testimg
• _germany
• _europe
• _world
• _berlin
• _petra