[OSM-dev] Planet file space requirements

[Linden Varley]

Thanks Jon that sounds like a good idea although I don't think I would be able to generate a tile expiry list using that method? Might have to manually do it by parsing the diff to get tiles.

-Linden

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Burgess [mailto:jburgess777 at googlemail.com]
Sent: Friday, 30 October 2009 11:09 AM
To: Linden Varley
Cc: Shaun McDonald; dev at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Planet file space requirements

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



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