[OSM-dev] Planet file space requirements

[Jon Burgess]

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 23:40 +0000, Shaun McDonald wrote:
> On 29 Oct 2009, at 22:45, Linden Varley wrote:
> 
> > Is there potential to be able to do differential updates on a non- 
> > slim imported db?
> 
> No you need slim mode to do diff updates.
> 

There is an alternative - you could use osmosis to regenerate the
complete planet.osm file each week from the diffs. Then this could be
imported without slim mode into osm2pgsql. I don't know how well this
would work in practice.

	Jon