[OSM-dev] Cron job on dev to make a UK planet

[Christoph Eckert]

Hi,

> Would like to resume the cron job on dev I ran till about late July to make
> a UK planet (downloadable from
> http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/downloads/planet/)  on the dev server. It
> uses planetosm-excerpt-db.pl. I've set it to run at 1800 UK time on a
> Wednesday. I don't think it's particularly memory intensive but would
> people prefer it to be done at a quieter time of day - e.g. 0300 UK time
> the following Thursday morning, when most of Europe, at least, is asleep?

was it somehow possible to create more subsets, e.g. one GB set, one for the 
rest of europe, one of northern America etc.? Due to its size it becomes more 
and more clumsy to deal with the current planet file.

Kind regards,

ce