[OSM-dev] XAPI and other solutions

[Cartinus]

On Sunday 24 April 2011 02:40:52 Nakor Osm wrote:
> Download the planet.pbf and extract from it.
>
> From a pbf planet file on a quad-core/8Gb RAM machine it takes me roughly
> 1.5 h to extract all ways marked natural=coastline.
>
> If you need updates more often than the weekly PBF, it takes about 2 hours
> on the same machine as above to apply the daily diffs with Osmosis and if
> you do not need a daily update just merge several daily diffs together
> before updating your planet file it will be way quicker than updating the
> planet for each day.

He is talking about France only. So if he used a country extract [1] in stead 
of the whole planet, then his processing times would be much shorter for both 
the methods mentioned bij Toby and Nakor.

[1] <http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/>

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m.v.g.,
Cartinus