Thanks Steve, that's useful information. Regards, Brendan
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Steve Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, brendan barrett wrote: > >> 1. What's the difference between these two diff approaches? > > Not sure - I've always used the daily/hourly/minutely ones. :) > >> 2. Is there a best practice approach to keeping in sync? > > For OpenPisteMap, I write an updater script: > http://subversion.nexusuk.org/projects/openpistemap/trunk/scripts/updater.py > (you'll need to hack the paths in the script as appropriate). > > It basically tries to keep the local database in sync with the OSM server by > grabbing the deltas each minute, but it also tries to be smart with whether > it downloads the daily, hourly or minutely deltas based on how far behind > you are. > >> FYI: I am not using any OSM tools to do the import, i'm writing my own >> import code (i'm in a .Net environment, and I find it better for my >> understanding if I do this myself). I can figure out how the files >> work, I just need to know the high level stuff. > > Well, my updater script may not directly be that useful to you then (it uses > osm2pgsql), but it might be a handy reference. I don't claim it is > necessarilly a "best practice" implementation, but I have tried to be > sensible with the number of requests it makes to the OSM server. > > - Steve > xmpp:[email protected] sip:[email protected] http://www.nexusuk.org/ > > Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
