[OSM-dev] osmosis, bounding boxes and updating

[Martijn van Exel]

On 3/22/2011 4:05 PM, Stephan Plepelits wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 03:55:03PM +0100, Martijn van Exel wrote:
>> I think I found the answer to my own question:
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@openstreetmap.org/msg03530.html
>>
>> In short: it's not possible to combine change streams with bounding
>> boxes / polygons.
>>
>> Right?
> Right.
>
> What I was thinking what might work (never tried it) to take a country
> export (e.g. Geofabrik or Cloudmade) every day build a diff between
> yesterdays and todays version and use this for importing.
>
> For sure you would have only one update per day.
>
> greetings,
>          Stephan

I think I might go with the option of deleting stray items (outside of 
my BBOX) in a separate process once in a while.

Martijn

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