[OSM-dev] Read-only db on dev

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Lots of clever people are making plans for replication etc. and I have  
> no doubt we'll get something impressive one day.
> 
> A brief "right now" idea, though:
> 
> Could we set up a cron job to copy across the db (or, at least, the  
> current tables) to dev.osm.org every day, and give all dev users  
> read-only access to this?

Or just turn on mysql logging and replication, which will give only a
few seconds delay.

> It would make dev really useful for hacking together uses of OSM data,  
> without the need for everyone to mess around with unpacking planet.osm  
> into their own dev dbs. Someone could even set up a shadow API for  
> people who only want to read the data.

It would be good to move T at H clients to a shadow api.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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