[OSM-dev] Merging Changes into Planet

[Andrew Ayre]

Hi,

If I download the latest set of hourly changes and merge them into
planet.osm.pbf using osmosis, this always takes about two hours to complete:

osmosis --read-xml-change changes.osc --read-bin planet-latest.osm.pbf
--apply-change --write-bin planet-new.osm.pbf

This is on an Ubuntu-based quad core server with 8GB of RAM so I think
the limitation is disk speed.

Does this merge time seem right/reasonable? Are there any approaches or
tricks I am missing that can speed it up?

thanks, Andy

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