I am trying to work out what is required to have my own local planet file then take diff updates.
Am I right in understanding that the planet is in a raw form as .osm data (a single XML file?) and that the diffs are patches that I can apply to this file? I see that it is possible to put the OSM data into PostgreSQL, but this seems to be for rendering e.g. Mapnik. Are there any other applications for this? i.e. fast querying of the data perhaps? I'm just looking for where to get started. I understand I'll need to get the initial Planet file from somewhere and it is too big to download (or is it? anyone in the SE Queensland area have it on a HDD that I could copy from?). Thanks for any pointers. -- Tony Morris http://tmorris.net/ _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
