[OSM-dev] Release candidate for OSM binary format is in osmosis trunk.

[Frederik Ramm]

Scott,

Scott Crosby wrote:
> message HeaderBlock {
>   required HeaderBBox bbox = 1;
> 
>   // Author, name, and version number of the dataset in this file. (to permit
>   // patches/updates to be incrementally applied)
>   optional string datasetauthor = 16; // TODO: WANT THIS?
>   optional string datasetname = 17;  // TODO: WANT THIS?
>   optional int64 version = 18; // TODO: WANT THIS?
> 
>   // Program generating this data
>   optional string writingprogram = 19;  // TODO: WANT THIS?
> }

To start regular updates after importing a full planet file, one 
typicalle needs to find out which state.txt file on 
planet.openstreetmap.org to copy. The current alogrithm for this is:

* decide whether you want daily, hourly, or minutely updates;
* find out the latest timestamp in your data set, or alternatively use 
the time of dataset creation
* find the latest state.txt file from the appropriate directory that was 
created before your own latest timestamp
* copy that to your Osmosis working directory

In order to make this really easy, a data file should (in order of 
preference) either

* contain the information required to synthesize a state.txt file for 
daily/hourly/minutely updates - then one would just have to extract that 
information, save it to a state.txt file and start running Osmosis for 
updates, or

* contain the URLs of the daily/hourly/minutely change files that would 
have to be loaded to start regular updates, or

* contain the timestamp of dataset creation or time of most recent 
object to allow manually looking up the proper state.txt file.

Bye
Frederik

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