I wonder how many people are actually using world-wide data as opposed to being interested in specific geographic areas.
Country/region based planet dumps would definitely get my vote, especially if there was such a thing as a regional full history file... On 2015-09-27 15:55, Daniel Koć wrote: > W dniu 27.09.2015 2:54, Stephen Knox napisał(a): > >> Does it really take this long to import a planet file these days? I >> would be interested to know if anyone else has imported one recently. >> I may import one myself at some point, but if it takes 6 days I >> probably won't bother. > > Even if this is not 6 days long, it may still make sense to use differential > dumps for example. > > I don't know how much additional resources we would need to create them and > how faster would it be to import the data, but after one big import at - > let's say - the beginning of a month (full copy) you just update it with > small "patches" (daily diffs) and you're done for some time. Weekly diffs may > be also of some use, but it needs some testing to know, of course. > > If this would cause disc space shortage, we could drop creating full dumps > weekly and make them only once a month. > > This could make importing much easier for established services at the cost of > more trouble to start the new ones (they should probably wait for next month > to be in sync if we need to drop full weekly dumps), but I think it's worth > considering.
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