<html><head><style id="outgoing-font-settings">#response_container_BBPPID{font-family: initial; font-size:initial; color: initial;}</style></head><body style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: initial; line-height: initial;" contenteditable="false"><div id="response_container_BBPPID" style="outline:none;" dir="auto" contenteditable="false"> <div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"><span style="color: initial; font-family: initial; font-size: initial;">> For those who download OSM data regularly, there is now a simple way to reduce the load on the primary OSM servers, while also making download much faster and ensure the data is correct.</span></div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">Apologies if this has been done to death already, but surely if you are downloading the entire planet regularly you are quite simply "doing it wrong"?</div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">Minutely (and other frequency) diffs exist, and there are ways of keeping a .pbf up to date (both osmium-based and osmosis-based, if for some reason the former doesn't work for you).</div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">A "tool" that downloads from all mirrors in parallel just leads to a "tragedy of the commons" situation, and isn't a solution to the underlying problem of scarce resources.</div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">Best Regards,</div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">Andy</div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"><br></div> <div id="blackberry_signature_BBPPID" name="BB10" dir="auto"> <div id="_signaturePlaceholder_BBPPID" name="BB10" dir="auto"></div> </div></div><!--start of _originalContent --></body></html>