[OSM-dev] md5sums

[Dave Stubbs]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Jon Burgess <jburgess777 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 09:59 +0100, Andy Allan wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Would it be possible to add md5sums alongside the files on
>> planet.openstreetmap.org? Especially for the planet files where having
>> osm2pgsql bail a few hours into import is a bit annoying :-)
>
> Sure, it would be quite easy to add to the script [1] and we could
> easily generate them for the older files.
>
> I got the impression that sha1sum is now preferred over md5sum, do we
> want to use that instead?


Only if you're aiming for security. If you're just trying to figure
out whether the file got corrupted during download then it really
doesn't make much difference.