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

[Jonathan Bennett]

andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> You might be missing out on a cool visualisation tool though (maybe
> what Bernhard is trying doing is similar), but that's the only use
> case I can think of right now.

How does that help anyone a) use the data, or b) improve the data? See
ITO's OSM Mapper if you want a *useful* visualisation tool. No live
stream needed there.

> What is a little worrying is that, as far as I see, there's no simple
> way to get a copy of the osm data (as in, everything that's in the
> database), even a week old -- because the planet file is only a
> "projection" of the data on a plane.  

I have no idea what a "projection of the data on a plane" is, unless
you're talking about an in-flight OSM movie. The planet file is
everything that's in the database, barring history info. Nothing more,
nothing less.

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Jonathan (Jonobennett)