[OSM-talk] osm2pgsql & planet: frustrations, cutoffs, and idempotence

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Michal Migurski <mike at stamen.com> wrote:
>> Now that I think about it though, I think what I did was take one of
>> the planet dumps from http://hypercube.telascience.org/planet/ (which
>> *are* consistant snapshots), and run the dailies from there.
>
> Is there any reason to not use those? They seem to be more frequent
> than the planet.openstreetmap.org ones - is there some disadvantage?
> How are they created?

Umm, they are created by taking the planet dumps and applying the
daily diffs every day. They are used to produce consistant snapshots
of for example, NL and by the coastline checker (which really likes
having consistant snapshots to work with).

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/