[Geocoding] Local Mirror of OSM Data...

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Anthony wrote:
> Planet does not include history, correct?

There is no history dump currently available but I expect that sooner or 
later there will be. It has been requested a number of times but there 
are open issues.

> That was one of the questions in my original post.  What's the
> nicest/friendliest way to download all the history for a particular US
> state?

You cannot; but you can get a suitable approximation by downloading old 
planet files (weekly dumps are available reaching back into 2006) and 
extracting what you need from them. (This will actually give you some 
information that you will never get from a future history dump, as way 
history had to be dropped when we moved from API 0.4 to API 0.5.)

> Hence my point about using a modern database, where you can create
> things like materialized views to make accessing the database
> efficient without making the core schema itself a mess.

We're looking forward to your implementation that uses free software, 
runs well on our hardware, and can handle the whole planet.

Bye
Frederik