[Talk-ca] Best way to keep OSM data "up to date" locally...

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Tyler Gunn <tyler at egunn.com> wrote:

> I'll have to look into the size of the diffs.  Ultimately my goal was to
> consume as little server resources as possible.  I figured there was no
> sense in downloading the whole area every day when relatively little
> changes.

Planet files and diffs both come from the planet.openstreetmap.org
mirror, and not directly from the API / database.  Minutely diff files
seem to be mostly 5k-50k, with some larger ones from bulk imports.