[OSM-dev] file timestamp in planet.pbf ?

Martijn van Exel m at rtijn.org
Mon Sep 10 01:02:44 BST 2012


Hey,

What does that timestamp mean? The time the file was created? The time
of the newest feature in the file?
The latter can be extracted from a PBD using osmconvert
--out-statistics (which is what I do) but there may be easier ways...

Martijn

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 2:47 PM,  <marqqs at gmx.eu> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Presently, only XML planet files contain a file timestamp. Example:
>
>   <osm version="0.6" generator="OpenStreetMap planet.c" timestamp="2012-08-22T11:34:27Z">
>
> I really would like to use the PBF planet files, but I need a file timestamp for my toolchain.
>
> How can this be accomplished? How can I help?
>
> Markus
>
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