[Tile-serving] Recommended OSM update method?

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

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On 4/14/2022 3:05 PM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:
> Greetings fellow tile servers,
>
> I've just about finished (re)setting up my planet-wide tile server for 
> the umpteenth time and was wondering what is the current 
> recommendation for keeping the OSM database current. There are two 
> different approaches that I've found documented, and I've used both of 
> them in the past.  But for this newest server, I'd like to follow the 
> best practice recommended by the community.
>
> Using mod_tile's openstreetmap-tiles-update-expire from
>
> https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/updating-as-people-edit/
>
> or use osm2pgsql's osm2pgsql-replication from
>
> https://osm2pgsql.org/doc/manual.html#updating-an-existing-database
>
> For a bit of background, I don't need minutely updates, but update in 
> batches approximately monthly using the daily planetary diffs. After 
> updating, I re-render all existing tiles that have been affected by 
> the updates (expired) and then snapshot the end resulting individual 
> PNGs (extracted from the metatiles directly) to another storage platform.
>
> Any/all comments are welcome.
>
> Lynn (D)
>
>
>
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