On Monday 16 Nov 2009 4:08:45 am Frederik Ramm wrote: > I lost track of who wrote what in this thread, but: > > Although geofabrik says the extracts are done every > > night, the extract I got yesterday was atleast 2 weeks out of date for my > > area. > > We generate all extracts every day, with the sole exception of the North > America extract which is really only a relic and should be deleted from > the download server (it is currently done once a week). The NA extract > doesn't help anybody a lot because it is so big that you might as well > download the planet. > > Back to the original question; if you get yourself an account on the OSM > dev server then you have NFS access to the planet file and you could run > Osmosis on it directly. This is not recommended for regular use as it > creates considerable load on the machine, but if you are in a situation > where download bandwidth is limited, that's an option. But bear in mind > that the planet is only updated once each week, so from Friday to > Wednesday you'll probably get a more current snapshot if you use one of > the Geofabrik files (except of course the North America one). >
it was some temporary problem with geofabrik files - for a few days they did not contain the up to date data - it is ok now. Although there is no 'india' file, asia is small enough for use. Thanks for the service. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
