Lennard wrote: >> I have a related question. What might be the best procedure to follow if >> I >> just want to keep the Finnish excerpt up to date? I have been using the >> Geofabrik country file and osm2pgsql, but now it takes about 40 minutes >> to >> run and some 20 minutes more for some updates and extra indexes etc. >> which >> I want to have. Is it possible to generate something like Finland.diff >> files to be used with osm2pgsql for updating the PostGIS database? I >> have > > You can update an extract with the global diffs. Use the bbox parameter > for osm2pgsql to limit the working area to the area of your extract. > > You can also keep an extract.osm up to date using osmosis. Apply the diffs > in osmosis and then apply a bounding box/polygon filter before writing out > the updated osm file. > >> been thinking that all that I would really need would be osm_point, >> osm_line and osm_polygon tables, and all those three would only need one >> attribute field, tags as hstore datatype. All the rest I could do with >> SQL inside database. > > You are required to have the slim mode tables (nodes,ways,rels) to be able > to apply diffs.
Thanks, I will have a try with global diffs and bbox. And sorry about being unclear, I knew I need slim mode tables for updating, I meant that for what I am using the OSM data I will only need points, lines, polygons and all the tags. Well, that covers the most, actually. -Jukka- _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
