[OSM-dev] Import planet.osm to rails

[Steve Coast]

On 1 Aug 2007, at 23:26, Dave Stubbs wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just setup the rails site on my computer to have a play with it.
> The good news is it all works!
>
> The bad news is that I can't figure out how to import the latest  
> planet.
> There seems to be a variety of scripts and programs that are supposed
> to do this, but none of them seem to work.

Ever since I wrote the first server in Java, I've not really  
understood why you'd want to do what you want to.

What I mean is, if I want to play around with the server code, I set  
up a server and point JOSM at it and make some test ways.. and that's  
it. I don't understand, for most things in OSM, why you need an  
entire dump with the rails code for. Only the very big issues like  
converting ways to paths...

I just see a lot of low hanging fruit you can hack on without the  
dump :-)

have fun,

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