[OSM-dev] planet.openstreetmap.org

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Friday 18 August 2006 13:26, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> On Thursday 17 Aug 2006 23:53, SteveC wrote:
> > I figure planet stuff is more dev than talk.
> >
> > http://planet.openstreetmap.org/
> >
> > In a minute the planet script should fire off and in a few hours there
> > should be a nice planet.osm sitting there. If all works then the script
> > will run at 1am every Friday morning.
> >
> > have fun,
> >
> > SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
>
> Is this a dedicated machine?
>
> If so would it be possible to do "sub-planets" for particular areas, e.g.
> the UK, Germany, Sweden, Europe? The latest planets are rather big and
> quite a challenge to parse.

Yes it would be nice to have subparts. But I think in the long term we have to 
be able to handle these big files anyhow. Even if we only have 
sub-county-planet.osm Files.

-
Joerg