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Support HTTPS for reverse lookup #3927

Closed openstreetmap-trac closed 3 years ago

openstreetmap-trac commented 3 years ago

Reporter: bong0 [Submitted to the original trac issue database at 12.11pm, Saturday, 23rd July 2011]

Hello,

I'm developing an application which uses location data of the user to do a nominatim reverse lookup. To preserve the privacy of the user, it'd be necessary to send that data over https, else I cannot guarantee that his precise location is leaked, unlike when working with the main site (which unfortunately doesn't do ssl/tls).

openstreetmap-trac commented 3 years ago

Author: twain [Added to the original trac issue at 12.46pm, Sunday, 24th July 2011]

OpenStreetMap is not primarily aimed at providing services to applications. It is very unlikely that this will happen since it would significantly increase the overheads involved.

You could try contacting MapQuest (http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/forums/-/message_boards?_19_mbCategoryId=153715) to see if they would be willing to add an ssl option to their api.