[OSM-dev] Import planet.osm to rails

[Dave Stubbs]

On 01/08/07, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>
> 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 :-)
>

But I don't want to hack on the low hanging fruit! Reach for the stars
steve! ;-)

Seriously, I agree with you completely -- but I want to play with some
tag related stuff, and for that I need a representative set of data,
and a representative *size* of data to see just how feasible some of
the things I've been thinking are. Now of course I could generate this
from some sort of metric. I could write a script etc. But it seemed
easier to just import the planet as I knew that people had scripts to
do this already.

Basically I'm fundamentally a lazy person :-)