[OSM-talk] Standard place for planet.osm

[Joerg Ostertag]

On Sunday 16 July 2006 13:48, OJW wrote:
> How about a server which doesn't host planet.osm itself, but provides:
> * A textfile listing the URL of all mirrored copies of planet.osm
> * A page which returns the URL of one randomly-selected mirror of
> planet.osm * A page containing an HTTP redirect to a randomly-selected
> mirror of planet.osm
> * A textfile containing the timestamp and meta-information of the latest
> planet.osm
>
> The other thing to look at is something like Coral, where you have a fixed
> URL, but the request is actually served by whichever mirror is closest to
> you
>
> http://www.coralcdn.org/

Well, nice Idea, but that was not the question.

I wanted to know wher we will put the files on your local PC after downloading 
and converting. So these files don't show up on your harddisk 10 time and eat 
up all Space available.

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Joerg