[OSM-talk] Re: [OSM-dev] MassGIS dataset

[Dean Earley]

>>>Now, why isn't there a June planet.osm? Because as Tom noted I 
>>>got back very late last night after being at reboot.
>>
>>This presumes *you* have to do the dump.  Why can't I do it? Or 
>>Petter, or Tom, or Mikel, or someone else you trust?  If every 
> 
> Specifically because nobody but mikel knows the code well enough. I
> really don't know why you're going down this road, there have been long
> standing offers of accounts and the source is all available. The
> practicality is that very few people want to do the work.

How big is the raw DB?

Is it worth copying that directly (bypassing MySQL) mirror it elsewhere 
and generate the planet.osm from there?

As for future expansion, how many (usable) servers are they available 
for OSM now?
What about setting up MySQL replication and the queries running of a 
pool of them?

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