[OSM-talk] Create extra Planet files for syncing (was: Bad coastline)

[80n]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > The coastline checker won't see anything after the 19th because the
> > daily diff for that day is missing. Either the diff will appear or it
> > will resync on the next planet dump.
>
> That's a problem I am having (for the Geofabrik Excerpts) as well - once
> a daily diff has failed, I'm stuck for the rest of the week. Actually
> this time I simply applied the new diffs anyway, ignoring possible
> consistency problems, but it's not the best thing.
>
> Would it be possible to issue "extra" planet dumps after events that
> disrupt the diff chain, like we had last week? So that those who rely on
> diffs for a current version of the data have a clean start to work on,
> without having to wait for the next regular planet?
>
> What does OSMXAPI do in cases like these?
>

Osmaxpi uses the minute diffs which have proven to be very reliable.

Occasionally, I'll run a resync against the whole planet file just to make
sure that everything is tickety-boo, but I haven't needed to do that for a
long time.

80n



>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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