Oh wow. That sounds very useful. Is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/DetailedUsage#--read-change-interval_.28--rci.29the only documentation available for this?
2009/9/10 Lennard <l...@xs4all.nl> > Richard Ive wrote: > > Sorry for being a noob, but what is the perpose of threading it though > > osmosis using -rci. Why not run a cron that does ./osm2pgsql -a > ../diff.ocm? > > Osmosis --rci takes care of downloading and merging of diffs for you. > Say your cron doesn't run for a while, for whatever reason. Osmosis > remembers the last diff it downloaded, and will pick up where it > stopped, merge all more recent diffs that it finds, and pipes that to > osm2pgsql in one stream. > > Say your diff import takes more than the time between your cron runs, > and again, it's very handy that osmosis takes care of a lot of diff > bookkeeping for you. > > -- > Lennard > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > -- Regards, Richard Ive.
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