[OSM-dev] osm2pgsql deltas

[Steve Hill]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Brett Henderson wrote:

> The documentation may not be comprehensive and does assume some knowledge
> around how Osmosis pipelines are constructed, but it is accurate and up to
> date to the best of my knowledge.

It does document each specific commandline parameter, but it is rather 
lacking in the "how to" sense - i.e. its great if you know exactly what 
commandline parameters you need and just need to understand how to use 
them, but less great if you're working out how to use Osmosis to download 
deltas for the first time.

> "Honking great Java application" is a little excessive, we're hardly talking
> about installing a JEE server here.  Does this refer to the download size,
> the fact that it runs on Java, or that fact that it seems hard to install.

Well, I was having a bad day and was utterly failing to get Osmosis to 
work at all so I may have gone off on one here somewhat unnecessarilly... 
sorry. :)

However, my personal opinion of Java is that it is generally a Bad Thing - 
it has certain specific uses but is massively overused in inappropriate 
situations.  That probably coloured my judgement somewhat.

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