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<p>I wonder how many people are actually using world-wide data as opposed to being interested in specific geographic areas.</p>
<p>Country/region based planet dumps would definitely get my vote, especially if there was such a thing as a regional full history file...</p>
<p>On 2015-09-27 15:55, Daniel Koć wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">W dniu 27.09.2015 2:54, Stephen Knox napisał(a):</span><br /><br />
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Does it really take this long to import a planet file these days? I</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">would be interested to know if anyone else has imported one recently.</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">I may import one myself at some point, but if it takes 6 days I</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">probably won't bother.</span></blockquote>
<br /> Even if this is not 6 days long, it may still make sense to use differential dumps for example.<br /><br /> I don't know how much additional resources we would need to create them and how faster would it be to import the data, but after one big import at - let's say - the beginning of a month (full copy) you just update it with small "patches" (daily diffs) and you're done for some time. Weekly diffs may be also of some use, but it needs some testing to know, of course.<br /><br /> If this would cause disc space shortage, we could drop creating full dumps weekly and make them only once a month.<br /><br /> This could make importing much easier for established services at the cost of more trouble to start the new ones (they should probably wait for next month to be in sync if we need to drop full weekly dumps), but I think it's worth considering.</div>
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