[OSM-dev] Live Database Copy of Planet File

[Matt Amos]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Emilie Laffray
<emilie.laffray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/11/5 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
>> Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
>> > I would like to do this too to provide a local mirror.  Last time I
>> > tried to do this I understood that this can't be done since the 0.6
>> > style diffs do not have enough information to create 100% identical
>> > copy. Is this still correct? I think the problem had something to do
>> > with changesets not being atomic.
>>
>> There are now "replication" changesets (along with a special Osmosis
>> task, --rri, to read and assemble them) which are supposed to capture
>> any change to the data base.
>
> Interesting. Do you have more documentation on this? I looked at the
> reference page for Osmosis and I couldn't find it.
> With those changesets, how do you proceed from a planet dump? Is there any
> documentation on how to use this.

i don't think there is any documentation yet, and i'm sure brett would
be happy if someone could help out with that. :-)

it's been discussed a couple of times on this ML, though:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2009-October/017390.html
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2009-October/017522.html

cheers,

matt