Hi, Peter Budny wrote:
I'm building a robot as a school project that will use data from TIGER imports and automatically create route relations for US state roads.
My advice is not to do it; if it can be done automatically, route relations are not required, and many in our community view bots as bad. It is likely that the use of bots will become rather heavily regulated in the future.
* Local db? I tried importing planet.osm but it's too big and takes too long. Even if I trim it to just US, my machine isn't all that powerful, and I still don't know if I'll have enough disk.
Your best option is to write something that doesn't import planet.osm but parses and processes it. Depending on what you want to do you may have to parse it twice or even more often. This will take long - a few hours each pass - but can probably be done with little memory consumption. It is not unlikely that you will only have to look at the ways so you can basically skip the first 70% of the file...
For development of course, you will want to create a very small extract with something like osmosis first.
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