[OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

[Tom Hughes]

Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Probably the best way to have a live feed - and a technique that has 
> been discussed on dev about two years ago - would be to have the rails 
> code log all successful database operations into a file which could then 
> be retrieved by an independent daemon and fed into whatever distribution 
> network you want. That would be about the same thing that database 
> replication does, just on a higher level.

It's a completely insane solution though. It we want to do it we should 
just do it properly in the database not fart around with stupid hacks in 
the rails code that break as soon as any updates are not done via rails.

Tom

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