[osmosis-dev] maintaining history

[Stefan Baebler]

Thanks for all the input so far, guys!
I'll give it a shot in the next few days and report about progress.

Stefan

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Brett Henderson wrote:
>> There is no migration task from 0.4 to 0.5 format though.  So you'll be
>> able to read 0.4 planet files, extract the Slovenia region, and write
>> the result to a 0.4 file.  You won't be able to save the result in 0.5
>> format.  The only method I'm aware of for migrating 0.4 data to 0.5
>> format is the migration script that runs on the mysql database.
>
> There's also a Perl script that does conversions back and forth here:
>
> /applications/utils/conv05
>
> I have used that successfully to prepare ancient data for use with
> current osm2pgsql to produce my history animations. I did however not
> use osmosis to cut out the desired region but instead the
> extract-polygon script from
>
> /applications/utils/osm-extract
>
> in the 0.4 version. The Perl converter needs some memory to do its job
> and will refuse to process at least the more recent 0.4 planets in one
> go, so I had to excerpt first and then convert.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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