[OSM-talk] Somebody should offer planet file postgis dump files

[Badita Florin]

Now, to import the planet it will take around 6-20 days with osmosis

Other tools behave in the same way ...

What i think it is missing, is a monthly postgis dump of the planet. Or
weekly, whatever

To have loaded in postgis the whole planet, and once a week/day/hour/minute
( what works best ) to apply just the changefiles

The dump to be as concise as possible, having just the bare necessities,
without the index, etc

In this way, people that are interested in doing some statistics out of OSM
can do it in a simple way, without spending 1-2 weeks only downloading the
29 osm.pbf file, waiting 6 days for osmosis to load the file, if it will
not crush, , having 1500 GB to do that, just to revert back to 200-700 GB

I cannot say how much it will take the database, because i was never able
to load the entire planet, all the time i had to revert to filtering,
clipping, calculate for each separate continent, amenity or type of POI,
and then combine it all back.

A dump of a planet file would make the osm data more accessible to
scientist, researchers and the general osm community

I would be able to try and find a server where the planet file would lay ,
with the osmosis script that would update the script and the psql script
that will generate once per month a dump file for the whole planet, if
somebody can help me create such a setup, if possible

Have a good day,
Florin Badita
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