[OSM-dev] OpenStreetMap

[Joe Richards]

>>>> (b) how we make a very large
>>>> quantity of data available.
>>>
>>> Bittorrent with all mirrors.
>> 
>> Problem with that is updates, you'd only want to update it on a 
>> bi-weekly or monthly basis to avoid the constantly changing dataset.
>
> Let the trackers just update the torrent file contents :) That will 
> allow to have different torrent file distribution, while the contents is 
> shared over the different updates.

Are completed seeds rescraped?  I'm not sure it will start to download a torrent that is already completed if the scrape fails... On the other hand, how about gittorrent?
http://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/