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

Philipp Borgers borgers at mi.fu-berlin.de
Thu Sep 27 10:46:46 BST 2012


On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 13:10 -0700, Paul Norman wrote:
> > 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.

Done. Do we plan to change the directory structure for the pbf files as
well? I'm missing subdirectories for years. The planet directory e.g.
has a 2012 subdirectory. 

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

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