Hi Peter, This all sounds very interesting and will no doubt have many uses that I can't anticipate.
I can't give you much assistance but will try to answer any specific questions you have. My wife is going to give birth sometime within the next month which means my priorities are about to change drastically ;-) You seem to have thought about most of the complexities of the problem already so you know what you're dealing with. You mentioned the problem of obtaining test data. I'd suggest using: http://planet.openstreetmap.org/history/ That is a full history from day one of the project up until now. It is already in the OSM change format that Osmosis understands. Cutting bounding boxes out of full history data is a difficult (but not impossible) problem that you may have to solve in order to move forward. In order to build way linestrings for all way versions and for all node versions impacting the way you will have to solve a similar problem to understanding how to cut bbox data so you may be able to kill a couple of birds with one stone. One thing to note is that I'm currently changing the simple schema a bit to improve performance. I've moved the tags into hstore columns, and have duplicated the way_node table info into a nodes array column on the way table. This improves bounding box style query performance by several times on large datasets. I don't think it will impact you too much. Good luck! Cheers, Brett On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Peter Körner <osm-li...@mazdermind.de>wrote: > Hi > > I during the last week I thought intensively about the new full history > dump and how we could use it. I wrote some kind of paper and also some demo > code to check how we could get osm history information into a postgis > database with linestings and all this delicate features osmosis offers. > > I've put it on the wiki at > < > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:MaZderMind/Reading_OSM_History_dumps > > > > I'd love to hear some comments about it. > > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > osmosis-dev mailing list > osmosis-dev@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmosis-dev >
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