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

[spaetz]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:09:46PM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
> 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.

It's being used for planet dumping and the daily osmosis changesets, nothing else.

> 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.

Certainly not, but there is no reason why somebody couldn't take the planet and provide bounding boxes of it. I don't see how the dev server could handle much more planet excerption tasks in its current state.

spaetz