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

[Paul Norman]

On 9/27/2015 6:55 AM, Daniel Koć wrote:
> Even if this is not 6 days long, it may still make sense to use 
> differential dumps for example.
>
> I don't know how much additional resources we would need to create 
> them and how faster would it be to import the data, but after one big 
> import at - let's say - the beginning of a month (full copy) you just 
> update it with small "patches" (daily diffs) and you're done for some 
> time. Weekly diffs may be also of some use, but it needs some testing 
> to know, of course.
>
> If this would cause disc space shortage, we could drop creating full 
> dumps weekly and make them only once a month.
>
> This could make importing much easier for established services at the 
> cost of more trouble to start the new ones (they should probably wait 
> for next month to be in sync if we need to drop full weekly dumps), 
> but I think it's worth considering. 

planet.osm.org has been providing weekly dumps and daily, hourly, and 
minutely diffs of data for a few years.