[OSM-dev] osm mirror at spline (planet files)

[Paul Norman]

> From: Philipp Borgers [mailto:borgers at mi.fu-berlin.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:41 PM
> To: dev
> Subject: [OSM-dev] osm mirror at spline (planet files)
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> for quite some time now we are mirroring the planet files at
> ftp.spline.de [1]. Finally I found some time to change our rsync script
> and adapt it to the new planet file structure.
> 
> At the moment we only host the planet files (xml) of the last three
> months. We still have some place on our hard disks and would be happy to
> serve some other files. In a next step I'm going to add the pbf files to
> the script. Do you have any other ideas what would be a good
> contribution to the mirror infrastructure? E.g. in the past we created
> torrent files for each planet dump but never seeded them. Maybe we can
> change this? Are you interested in extracts or something else?

.pbf would be good - it should be used in preference to .osm.bz2 whenever possible.

There are torrents set up at http://osm-torrent.torres.voyager.hr/ already that use webseed. Perhaps you could be added to those?