[OSM-talk] does one need to download the planet to use osmosis

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Monday 16 Nov 2009 4:08:45 am Frederik Ramm wrote:
> I lost track of who wrote what in this thread, but:
> > Although geofabrik says the extracts are done every
> > night, the extract I got yesterday was atleast 2 weeks out of date for my
> > area. 
> 
> We generate all extracts every day, with the sole exception of the North 
> America extract which is really only a relic and should be deleted from 
> the download server (it is currently done once a week). The NA extract 
> doesn't help anybody a lot because it is so big that you might as well 
> download the planet.
> 
> Back to the original question; if you get yourself an account on the OSM 
> dev server then you have NFS access to the planet file and you could run 
> Osmosis on it directly. This is not recommended for regular use as it 
> creates considerable load on the machine, but if you are in a situation 
> where download bandwidth is limited, that's an option. But bear in mind 
> that the planet is only updated once each week, so from Friday to 
> Wednesday you'll probably get a more current snapshot if you use one of 
> the Geofabrik files (except of course the North America one).
> 

it was some temporary problem with geofabrik files - for a few days they did 
not contain the up to date data - it is ok now. Although there is no 'india' 
file, asia is small enough for use. Thanks for the service.
-- 
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Senior Project Officer
NRC-FOSS
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/