[OSM-dev] Data source for robot

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Peter Budny <peterb at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Wait, so you haven't got the time to fix the problem properly, but
>> you've got the time to write and test a bot, and get agreement from
>> all the people who will be affected by it?
>
> Writing, testing, and evaluating a bot is within the scope of a class
> project for Emerging Database Technologies.  Working on osm2pgsql is
> not.

Excellent.  You'll be in-scope on your local copy of the database as
suggested earlier.  Pick three counties you like so you can have a
sample of urban, suburban and rural data without needing a substantial
box to run it on.