Error message is unclear if OSM server bandwidth is exceeded

[openstreetmap-trac]

Reporter: spod
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 5.29pm, Saturday, 23rd April 2011]

If the OSM server thinks that a user has downloaded "too much", then the error that Potlatch 2 displays is the vague: "Couldn't load the map".

It would be better if this error message was "Bandwidth exceeded. Could not load map data", so that is clear to the user what the problem actually is.

See:
http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/4762/potlatch-error-couldnt-load-the-map

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: TomH
[Added to the original trac issue at 4.23pm, Sunday, 24th April 2011]

The main problem here is not Potlatch at all, but cgimap, which doesn't implement the special protocol to let Potlatch see the error details.

Actually, the main problem is of course flash, for not letting Potlatch see the normal HTTP response details ;-)

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: TomH
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.39pm, Tuesday, 26th April 2011]

I have now added X-Error-Format support to cgimap, but I think Potlatch needs changing to request XML errors when loading map data - probably a change in sendLoadRequest() is in order.