I stuff3d up the 0.27 release. 0.28 is up now and fixes a major runtime problem preventing it from ever launching.
Brett Henderson wrote: > Hi All, > > I've just released osmosis 0.27 which adds some additional support for > downloading and applying changesets from the planet server. > > As you may or not be aware there are currently three changesets > available on the planet server. These are the daily, hourly and > minute changesets. > > I have added two new tasks to osmosis for consuming these files. > These are: > --read-change-interval - This provides the ability to download a set > of changes, merge them into a single changeset and pass the data to > the next task in the pipeline. It maintains a working directory where > it stores its configuration file and tracks the latest downloaded > timestamp. > --read-change-interval-init - This is necessary to initialise the > working directory used by the --read-change-interval task. > > I'll illustrate using an (untested) example. This example will keep > an xml file containing a small bounding box up-to-date. > 1. Create the working directory with a timestamp initialised to the > start of today. > $ osmosis --read-change-interval-init "myworkingdirectory" > "2008-05-26_00:00:00" > > 2. Edit the config file. > The configuration file will contain suitable defaults for downloading > the hourly changes and hopefully won't require any modifications. > > 3. Extract an extra of the world that you're interested in using a > planet that is newer than the start of today (the original source must > contain later data than you initialise the initial timestamp to). > osmosis --rx planet.osm.bz2 --bb left=0 top=10 right=10 bottom=0 --wx > myextract.osm > > 4. Apply the latest changes to the extract, produce an updated extract > and rename new file the old name. > osmosis --read-change-interval "myworkingdirectory" --rx myextract.osm > --ac --bb left=0 top=10 right=10 bottom=0 --wx myextract-updated.osm > mv myextract-updated.osm myextract.osm (Note that the error code > returned by osmosis should be checked in the previous step) > > Some limitations exist: > Currently only the hourly and minute changesets are supported due to > the bzip2 encoding used by the daily changesets. I should fix this > soon but it will take a little bit of rework in the task design, it's > currently hard coding a gzip encoding. > There is no limits to the number of files downloaded, I should add a > configuration option to limit the number of files (and subsequent > processing threads) processed in a single invocation. > > I hope people find it useful. Any feedback appreciated. > > Cheers, > Brett > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev

