[OSM-dev] 'Planet Manager' for osmosis?

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:40 AM, John Smith<delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- On Sun, 26/7/09, Graham Jones <grahamjones139 at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> I am setting up a little local database to contain OSM data
>> from a planet dump.
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> I just use osm2pgsql to handle updates, although it breaks occasionally when the system has been given bad input that wasn't handled properly, although you can put the change file through osmosis first.
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> You need to do the original import using the -s option and then you can use -a to update, if you don't have -a it wipes the db first.

If you just supply -a it'll automatically get the applicable diff from
planet.openstreetmap.org and apply it?