Re: [OSM-talk] Create extra Planet files for syncing

2008-06-23 Thread Brett Henderson
David Earl wrote: > Would it really be that much slower: yes it is more work, but OTOH, it > is fewer disk writes? The daily diffs are approximately 6MB of data to write but take a couple of minutes to produce. The disk overhead is negligible. But this also means that the compression overhead

Re: [OSM-talk] Create extra Planet files for syncing (was: Bad coastline)

2008-06-23 Thread Cartinus
On Monday 23 June 2008 15:33:17 80n wrote: > Osmaxpi uses the minute diffs which have proven to be very reliable. > > Occasionally, I'll run a resync against the whole planet file just to make > sure that everything is tickety-boo, but I haven't needed to do that for a > long time. > > 80n That's

Re: [OSM-talk] Create extra Planet files for syncing (was: Bad coastline)

2008-06-23 Thread 80n
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > The coastline checker won't see anything after the 19th because the > > daily diff for that day is missing. Either the diff will appear or it > > will resync on the next planet dump. > > That's a problem I am hav

Re: [OSM-talk] Create extra Planet files for syncing (was: Bad coastline)

2008-06-23 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would it be possible to issue "extra" planet dumps after events that disrupt > the diff chain, like we had last week? So that those who rely on diffs for a > current version of the data have a clean start to work on, witho

Re: [OSM-talk] Create extra Planet files for syncing

2008-06-23 Thread David Earl
On 23/06/2008 12:00, Brett Henderson wrote: > Frederik Ramm wrote: >> Sure, I can do that. I was assuming they would somehow be incomplete >> as well but if they are ok then I can just switch to using these. > The hourly & minute are definitely more reliable than daily. I won't be > surprised to

Re: [OSM-talk] Create extra Planet files for syncing

2008-06-23 Thread Brett Henderson
Frederik Ramm wrote: > Sure, I can do that. I was assuming they would somehow be incomplete > as well but if they are ok then I can just switch to using these. The hourly & minute are definitely more reliable than daily. I won't be surprised to see missing data in daily files. If you see *any*

Re: [OSM-talk] Create extra Planet files for syncing

2008-06-23 Thread Brett Henderson
Matthias Urlichs wrote: > A third option would be to simply save the last 24 diffs and then > concatenate them appropriately. Some XML mangling may be required, > but that's certainly less of a processing burden than to go to the > database for information you already did extract True, that would a

Re: [OSM-talk] Create extra Planet files for syncing

2008-06-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > I never got around to checking out what happened to the diffs during > that period, apologies. Are you sure that there's a gap in data? I was assuming there must be, but I might be wrong. Osmosis doesn't refuse to apply a diff even if some of the objects arent' there. (Which is a good

Re: [OSM-talk] Create extra Planet files for syncing

2008-06-23 Thread Brett Henderson
I never got around to checking out what happened to the diffs during that period, apologies. Are you sure that there's a gap in data? It isn't a huge amount of effort to re-generate a daily file, that can be generated at any time. I'm not sure how simple it is for you to utilise, but the hour

[OSM-talk] Create extra Planet files for syncing (was: Bad coastline)

2008-06-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > The coastline checker won't see anything after the 19th because the > daily diff for that day is missing. Either the diff will appear or it > will resync on the next planet dump. That's a problem I am having (for the Geofabrik Excerpts) as well - once a daily diff has failed, I'm stuck for