[OSM-dev] Exhaustion of 32bit signed integer range expected this year

[Simon Poole]

RSN a large number of sites using OSM data will be reloading their 
databases, due to a certain well known change :-).

It seems as if it would really make sense to make the 64bit ID version 
of osm2pgsql the default now and communicate that it might be a good 
idea to switch on the upcoming reload.

Do we have any idea what the actual impact on DB size etc is?

Simon

PS: CC'd to the CWG for good form.