2011/10/27 Kai Krueger <[email protected]>: > On 10/26/2011 04:58 PM, Jo wrote: > [...] >> >> This is setup on my portable and I was wondering: Do I have to set a >> cron job for the tiles-update-expire to run every hour? What happens >> when I switch off my portable. Will the changes of the past night all >> be applied with the first run of the tiles-update-expire script? Or >> should I run this script every 20 minutes, in the morning, so it can >> catch up? > > In its current version, the tiles-update-expire script runs the osmosis > minutely replication task once. As the default of osmosis is to only > collect one hour of minutely diffs at a time, this script will only > update the db by up to an hour per invocation. So if you are more than > one hour behind, you will need to run it multiple times to catch up. > > I should fix the script to include the while loop within the script so > that if there are still more data to fetch it will automatically do that > and you would only need to call the script once to be fully up-to-date > again.
It would be nicer if it worked that way, indeed. > >> >> I've been running it almost continuously for the past few hours and it >> always seems to have a lot of work to do... > > You are probably quite a number of hours behind the db after the initial > import. Either because the import takes a while, or because your extract > is a day or so old. I added it to crontab, so it runs every 20 minutes now. Is it a problem for the servers when it is run so often? > >> >> Anyway, now I'll have to work on adding layers for cycling, hiking, >> horseback and bus routes and their stylesheets. > > Have fun with that. Hehe, I will (I hope), but I asked openstreetmap.nl for their style sheets as a starting point. > > >> >> Thanks for making this possible, > > It is great to see that this seems to help people set up their own tile > servers and play with the possibilities. Well, it doesn't stop with me. I announced it on our mailing list (to present it at an informal meet up) and there is at least one more person interested in this as well. Cheers, Jo _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
