[OSM-dev] osm2pgsql: Importing several Geofabrik OSM files

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Thu, 2009-07-30 16:34:35 +0200, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > I just tried importing germany.osm.bz2 and denmark.osm.bz2 from
> > http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/ .  However, importing the second
> > file after the first one failed due to duplicate ways. Just hacked
> > osm2pgsql to use ACTION_MODIFY instead of ACTION_CREATE, which seems
> > to simply work. 
>
> Apart from the fact that the Geofabrik extracts are made using the  
> Osmosis "clipIncompleteEntities" switch, so that when you update a  
> cross-border way it will lose the elements from the other side of the  
> border. Expect problems along the borders.

I already noticed that. It's working "good enough" for me :-)  apart
from the failure during import.

MfG, JBG

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