[Historic] Historic Digest, Vol 6, Issue 13

[Robert Warren]

Do you have an idea for cross-referencing to the original OSM way/node/relation? -rhw

On 2013-01-22, at 1:55 PM, historic-request at openstreetmap.org wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:30:47 -0800
> From: Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org>
> To: Rob Warren <warren at muninn-project.org>
> Cc: historic at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Historic] infrastructure was Temporal Tagging
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> That's the approach I've taken, but setting up a full dump is a pretty DB
> intensive process - e.g. 1.5+TB for the apidb, plus a separate tile cache /
> store. That's why I was looking at doing just a shorelines + rivers dump,
> which is still ~100GB for the apidb.
> 
> The workflow (which could use some serious improvement) I had in my mind
> (which could also use some improvement) was something like this:
> 
> - take baseline earth with shorelines, rivers, lakes, etc.
> - people import current OSM for their region of interest (e.g. part of
> Rome, whatever) & strip out what wasn't there during the time period of
> interest
> or
> - people import external datasets for their period of interest
> 
> - Jeff
>