[OSM-dev] planet.openstreetmap.org breakage

[Stefan de Konink]

Grant Slater wrote:
> Recent planet files available from: http://planet.openstreetmap.org/
> will be disrupted for the next few days. Apologies for the disruption.
> 
> Hopefully be fixed within the next 48 hours.
> 
> Reasons? Look over here:
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-March/035381.html

So could you elaborate the downtime? We have a 'perfect history system' 
and since we are talking 'all accounts have been identified' wouldn't 
that be a perfect test case for our 'users that don't want to migrate 
with the new license scheme'?

I could perfectly understand the need for removing the data content from 
one user. Since our history system allows to 'delete' these edits it 
will be a trivial task to do this and produce a new planet file. After 
which you delete the history of the affected object (until the point the 
user did not touch it). Of course doing this via the public API might be 
a bit too slow (but hey this is also told to everyone else that has a 
mass import or mass change). Then again a delete from the current table 
in SQL matching the userid, is that going to affect service; I doubt this.

Therefore I don't get why downtime is required for a foundation core 
service. (Especially looking at what date the notice was done... August)
I do understand the need of removing all previous planets up to the 
point of first data entry.


Stefan