[OSM-talk] Re: [OSM-dev] Standard place for planet.osm

[Joerg Ostertag]

On Monday 24 July 2006 17:39, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Joerg Ostertag]
>
> > This wouldn't mean that if anyone wants to have these files
> > somewhere else he cannot move them.
> >
> > Any suggestions for a good location _other_ than the current one:
> >  ~/.gpsdrive/MIRROR/osm/planet.osm
>
> What about agreeing on three locations, one in /usr/share/ for the
> static version included in some system package, one in /var/ for the
> automatically downloaded update, and one in ~/ for those without write
> access to /var/.  I suggest these locations:
>
>   /usr/share/openstreetmap.org/planet.txt
>   /var/lib/openstreetmap.org/planet.txt

These sound good.

>   ~/.openstreetmap.org/planet.txt

I know gpsdrive did the same, but it always bothered me to have Gigabytes of 
data in a hidden directory. So I'd like to move this to a visible directory.

 ~/openstreetmap.org/planet.txt

>
> Programs should look for them in priority order, the last one first.

This sounds like the first useful suggestion. So, if i don't get any big 
protest, I'll implement it this way.

PS.: For the M$ users; as soon as this part is implemented; feel free to add 
your  additional pathes after the /usr/share... path.

-- 
Jörg Ostertag (München)

http://www.ostertag.name/