[OSM-dev] planet export link to latest

[Jason Reid]

Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 01:48:30PM +0100, Grant Slater wrote:
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>> It would be great if there was link to the latest planet export.
>> planet-latest.osm.bz2 -> planet-070725.osm.bz2
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> Good idea. Implemented. The symlink should be updated each time a new planet dump has been generated. Thanks for the prodding.
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> spaetz
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>> PS: My vote is for dropping the 7z.
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> Re: P.S. So would be my inclination. let's see how many people complain.
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My understanding is that the 7z file was only added recently as it is 
better compression, however since we kept generating the bz2 file no one 
bothered to switch over. If we decided to drop it I doubt many would 
even notice, however there are definite disk savings in using the 7z. If 
we dropped the bz2 though I think there may be a bit of an uproar at 
least initially, mostly since 7z isn't that well known of a compression 
option.

+1 for having a symlink to the latest though.

Jason Reid