[OSM-talk] splitting up planet file

[Paul Houle]

  On 11/30/2010 7:16 AM, Donald Campbell II wrote:
>
> Now there's probably several huge reasons the concept wouldn't work 
> with the planet.osm file, I don't know a thing about it's internal 
> organization so I can't say...
>
> But perhaps there's some amount of data locality that can be exploited 
> to make this work.  If there's at least one type of information that 
> we can use to seek through the file and find perhaps a country or a 
> boundary of some sort, then it could be possible.

     Well,  for one things,  the nodes,  ways and relations are 
represented separately.  I've already split the OSM file into these 
segments because there are times I want to do a scan,  and only want to 
scan one of these things.  It would also be logical to break things up 
into big geographical chunks,  say,  continents,  countries,  etc.
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