[OSM-dev] Using osmosis to generate a full-planet.osm file

[Matt Amos]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Scott,
>
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 22:06:57 -0500
>> I believe the osmosis database representation for a planet is not the
>> same as what is used by osm servers. OSM servers use a special dump
>> program for generating planets.
>
> I think Eric was talking about the history planets,
> not the normal planet files. Neither of these is created with Osmosis
> as far as I know but I'm not sure what software is used for the full
> history dumps.

the full history planets are created using lars francke's historydump [1] tool.

cheers,

matt

[1] https://bitbucket.org/lfrancke/historydump/overview