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

[Tom Hughes]

In message <20071102224340.GB32342 at lochewe.mathy.remote.org>
          Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> > 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 wasn't even aware that I have direct database access from the dev
> server. How does this work? In that case I'd save me the trouble of
> downloading the planet file and making a Germany excerpt each week and
> instead create that on dev...

As far as I know there is no general access to the database from
dev - there certainly shouldn't be anyway.

There is an account which has access to the database from dev for
dumping the planet, but as far as I am aware that is the only thing
that account is used for.

I assumed Nick was talking about filtering planet to create a cut
down version, not working against the database, but I see that the
name of the script he was planning to use implies otherwise.

I don't think we really want to get into the business of producing
lots of mini-planets direct from the database as it isn't very
scalable and there are security and privacy reasons for limiting
access to the database.

Tom

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