[OSM-dev] Planet dump today delayed (ie not today) :-(

[Jon Burgess]

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 21:19 +0200, Jon Bright wrote:
> Sebastian at SSpaeth.de wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 05:57:38PM +0100, Andy Allan wrote:
> >> I don't follow the IRC channels so maybe it's being discussed there -
> >> but is there any progress on the planet dump? Spaetz's last message
> > 
> > yes, it's still in progress (at 4.7gb now)
> 
> Just for information, do I understand correctly that this means
> 
>   - it's almost finished in terms of size (last planet I have to hand is 
> 4.9GB uncompressed)
>   - but it'll probably take some time nonetheless since it gets 
> exponentially slower towards the end?
> 

At the moment the script is still extracting the ways and the file is
currently 5.3GB. 

Don't forget that after the extraction is complete the file will need to
be bzip2 compressed which will take time too.

	Jon